Lot 131
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AN EXTREMELY RARE 120-BORE BAILEY'S PATENT FIVE-SHOT DOUBLE-ACTION SIDE-HAMMER PERCUSSION REVOLVER, No. 242, with 5in. blued octagonal sighted take-down barrel engraved with retailer's name 'Swinburn & Son' on the top flat, grooved top strap, blued frame engraved with double line borders (action defective), blued cylinder, case-hardened rammer, and figured walnut butt, and much original finish, Birmingham proof marks, circa 1858

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AN EXTREMELY RARE 120-BORE BAILEY'S PATENT FIVE-SHOT DOUBLE-ACTION SIDE-HAMMER PERCUSSION REVOLVER, No. 242, with 5in. blued octagonal sighted take-down barrel engraved with retailer's name 'Swinburn & Son' on the top flat, grooved top strap, blued frame engraved with double line borders (action defective), blued cylinder, case-hardened rammer, and figured walnut butt, and much original finish, Birmingham proof marks, circa 1858
10¼in.

Lot Essay

This revolver incorporates British Patent No. 1634 of 20 July, 1858
For more information on the patentee and for a description of what is almost certainly this revolver see A.W.F. Taylerson, R.A.N. Andrews and J. Frith, The Revolver 1818-1865, 1968, p. 327

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