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A VERY RARE 52-BORE WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT SIX-SHOT SINGLE-ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVER

BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, 170 NEW BOND ST., LONDON, NO. 39, CIRCA 1855

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A VERY RARE 52-BORE WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT SIX-SHOT SINGLE-ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVER
By Westley Richards, 170 New Bond St., London, No. 39, circa 1855
With octagonal sighted hinged tip-up barrel signed in full on the top flat (rammer missing from left side), plain serial numbered cylinder and frame, side-hammer, chequered walnut grips (repaired), and lanyard-ring in the butt-plate (in worn condition with surface pitting, some surfaces filed down), Birmingham proof marks
11in. (28cm.)

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品专文

This revolver incorporates British Patents Nos. 933 and 911, respectively of 3 May 1854 and 24 April 1855

Cf. Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, nos. 653-654