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A VERY RARE CASED 80-BORE WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT FIVE-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER

NO. 40, CIRCA 1852

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A VERY RARE CASED 80-BORE WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT FIVE-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER
No. 40, circa 1852
With blued octagonal sighted barrel signed in full on the top flat and with an engraved band around the muzzle, plain case-hardened cylinder with angled nipples, scroll engraved case-hardened action with engraved side-hammer and gravitating platinum-filled safety-stop, blued scroll engraved trigger-guard, chequered saw-handled figured walnut butt, case-hardened pommel with scroll engraved hinged butt-trap cover, and nearly all its original finish: in its original fitted oak case lined in tooled pigskin with accessories including correct brass bullet mould, bags of wads and caps, nipple-wrench, spare nipples, and reproduction powder-flask, the lid with illustrated Directions label (lid- and key-hole escutcheons replaced), London proof marks
9¼in. (23.5cm.)

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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

Lot Essay

This revolver incorporates British Patent No. 14027 of 20 March 1852, but not the rack and pinion rammer patented in 1854. The label is similar to that illustrated in A.W.F. Taylerson, R.A.N. Andrews and J. Frith, The Revolver 1818-1865, plate 34 (top)

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