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A RARE 35-BORE COLLIER PATENT SECOND MODEL FIVE-SHOT FLINTLOCK REVOLVING RIFLE, NO.82
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A RARE 35-BORE COLLIER PATENT SECOND MODEL FIVE-SHOT FLINTLOCK REVOLVING RIFLE, NO.82

CIRCA 1825

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A RARE 35-BORE COLLIER PATENT SECOND MODEL FIVE-SHOT FLINTLOCK REVOLVING RIFLE, NO.82
Circa 1825
With browned twist barrel rifled with nine grooves, signed 'E. H. Collier 82 London' on the rib ahead of the back-sight and engraved with scrolls enclosing a tiger mask at the rear, fitted with signed engraved patent priming magazine with roller (cam screw missing), the lower rib partly chequered in imitation of a short fore-end, blued large breech tang with engraved borders enclosing a trophy-of-arms, fluted hand-rotated reciprocating cylinder with countersunk chambers, engraved rear sleeve incorporating the pan, engraved flash-shield fitted over the front, signed border-engraved back-action lock decorated with flowers, scrolls and a trophy, pierced cock, figured walnut butt inlaid with an engraved silver star opposite the lock and with original short chamber-ramrod of blued iron concealed within an aperture at the toe, engraved blued iron butt-plate and trigger-guard each decorated en suite with the breech tang and the lock, original brass-tipped wooden ramrod, vacant escutcheon, and some original finish.
26 7/8in (68.3cm) barrel
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品專文

Elisha Hayden Collier was an engineer from Boston, Massachusetts. He emigrated to England in August, 1818, and on November 24 of that year he patented his revolving flintlock system, No. 4315.

Collier had previously assisted with an experimental revolving gun designed by Captain Artemus Wheeler of Concord, Massachusetts, the design for its cylinder rotary system being that of Cornelius Coolidge, also of Boston.

Wheeler patented his hand-rotated seven-shot design in the United States on June 10, 1818, the product of which is preserved in the Smithsonian Institution.

A broadsheet published by Collier gives his London address as No.6, Herbert's Passage, Beaufort Buildings, Strand.

For a comprehensive account of Collier's firearms see C. P. Bedford, Collier and his Revolvers, Bulletin of the American Society of Arms Collectors, No. twenty-four, 1971, pp.10-21.

Very few Collier rifles have appeared at auction, the last was in 1992.