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A Very Rare Cased 64-Bore 7-Shot Percussion 'Turret' Revolver
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A Very Rare Cased 64-Bore 7-Shot Percussion 'Turret' Revolver

BY JAMES WILKINSON & SON, NO. 27 PALL MALL, LONDON, NO. 5158 FOR 1839

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A Very Rare Cased 64-Bore 7-Shot Percussion 'Turret' Revolver
By James Wilkinson & Son, No. 27 Pall Mall, London, No. 5158 for 1839
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrel, case-hardened hinged top-strap released by a stud at the rear, the surface finely engraved with scrollwork and signed 'Wilkinson & Son Pall Mall London 8 Patent 5158', large spring-loaded screw-head forming the back-sight and also activating the blued cylinder release catch, engraved case-hardened flash-shield, blued under-hammer and trigger, large square-backed blued trigger-guard finely engraved with scrollwork, serial numbered case-hardened tang, chequered figured walnut butt with oval pommel, and nearly all its original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case containing numerous accessories including combined rammer and bullet mould, and Sykes three-way flask, and two flat case-hardened cylinders each inscribed 'Wilkinson & Son 8 Patent 5158', the lid with post-1837 trade label and flush-fitting carrying handle (key-hole escutcheon missing), London proof marks
11¼in. (28.6cm.)
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment 1760-1860, plate 506
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

Originally supplied to Sir J. Campbell in September 1839
This pistol is constructed to Moses Poole's British Patent No. 7286 of 19 January 1837, probably designed by the American, J.W. Cochran of New York City. It is believed that only about seventeen 'turret' guns and pistols were made. A very similar cased pistol (No. 5125) used by Lord Egerton, sportsman, author, and poet, is preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. XII. 3899)