A VERY RARE FOUR-SHOT SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK REVOLVER with three-stage barrel swamped at the muzzle, fluted hand-rotated cylinder revolving at the rear within an engraved silver sleeve and locked by pushing forward the engraved iron trigger-guard, signed engraved rounded lock fitted with an automatic priming magazine within the back of the steel, operated by gears and filled via the spring-loaded cap on top, figured walnut full stock (fore-stock replaced) carved with a shell behind the engraved barrel tang, silver mounts comprising trophy of arms side-plate (belt hook removed) and escutcheon, the latter engraved with a crest, and engraved spurred pommel, the cap engraved with a flowerhead, by R. Wilson, London, London proof marks, London silver hallmarks for 1738, maker's mark of Jeconiah Ashley

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A VERY RARE FOUR-SHOT SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK REVOLVER with three-stage barrel swamped at the muzzle, fluted hand-rotated cylinder revolving at the rear within an engraved silver sleeve and locked by pushing forward the engraved iron trigger-guard, signed engraved rounded lock fitted with an automatic priming magazine within the back of the steel, operated by gears and filled via the spring-loaded cap on top, figured walnut full stock (fore-stock replaced) carved with a shell behind the engraved barrel tang, silver mounts comprising trophy of arms side-plate (belt hook removed) and escutcheon, the latter engraved with a crest, and engraved spurred pommel, the cap engraved with a flowerhead, by R. Wilson, London, London proof marks, London silver hallmarks for 1738, maker's mark of Jeconiah Ashley
14¾in.
Literature
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Early Firearms of Great Britain and Ireland from the collection of Clay P. Bedford, p.165-6, No.183

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This is a very early example of its type

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