A RARE .46 AMERICAN COLLIER PATENT FIVE-SHOT FLINTLOCK REVOLVER

BY E.H. COLLIER, NO. 64, CIRCA 1824

細節

A RARE .46 AMERICAN COLLIER PATENT FIVE-SHOT FLINTLOCK REVOLVER
By E.H. Collier, No. 64, circa 1824
With sighted twist barrel signed on the rib, fluted cylinder, signed engraved detented lock (top jaw and screw replaced), engraved top-strap and priming magazine, the latter inscribed 'E.H. Collier Patent', engraved cylinder-sleeve and flash-guard, chequered figured walnut butt, engraved trigger-guard, silver escutcheon, silver star on the left side, and original brass-mounted ramrod
13¾in.

來源

Romaine Fielding

F. Theodore Dexter

Frank E. Bivens, Jr.

出版

Russell Barnett Aitken, 'Six Shooters Before Colt', True Magazine, January 1963, p. 50 (illustrated)

拍品專文

Elisha Haydon Collier was an American engineer. He patented his revolving system in London on 24 November 1818, no. 4315, thus anticipating Samuel Colt's first patent by seventeen years