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SIGNED WOOD, YORK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Details
A RARE .33 ENGLISH SEVEN-SHOT FLINTLOCK PEPPERBOX REVOLVER
Signed Wood, York, early 19th Century
With hand-rotated turn-off barrels, the outer ones numbered from '1' to '6' on the brass breech-block, brass box-lock action signed within trophies of arms, engraved iron thumbpiece safety-catch and trigger-guard, and flat-sided figured walnut butt with vacant silver escutcheon
9in.
Signed Wood, York, early 19th Century
With hand-rotated turn-off barrels, the outer ones numbered from '1' to '6' on the brass breech-block, brass box-lock action signed within trophies of arms, engraved iron thumbpiece safety-catch and trigger-guard, and flat-sided figured walnut butt with vacant silver escutcheon
9in.
Provenance
Frank E. Bivens, Jr.
Literature
F. Theodore Dexter, Forty-Two Years' Scrapbook of Rare Ancient Firearms, p. 210: Half Century Scrapbook of Vari-Type Firearms, no. 276, pp. 96-7, plate 43
Russell Barnett Aitken, 'Six Shooters Before Colt', True Magazine, January 1967, p. 49
Guns, December 1966, pp. 38-9 (illustrated)
Russell Barnett Aitken, 'Six Shooters Before Colt', True Magazine, January 1967, p. 49
Guns, December 1966, pp. 38-9 (illustrated)