拍品 162
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A 120-BORE TRANTER PATENT FIVE-SHOT DOUBLE-ACTION PERCUSSION POCKET REVOLVER
A 120-BORE TRANTER PATENT FIVE-SHOT DOUBLE-ACTION PERCUSSION POCKET REVOLVER

RETAILED BY WILKINSON & SON, LONDON, SERIAL NO. 13880.T, CIRCA 1861

细节
A 120-BORE TRANTER PATENT FIVE-SHOT DOUBLE-ACTION PERCUSSION POCKET REVOLVER
RETAILED BY WILKINSON & SON, LONDON, SERIAL NO. 13880.T, CIRCA 1861
With engraved blued octagonal sighted barrel inscribed on the right side 'LT. COL. HON. TH. H. ANNESLEY SCOTS FUS.R GUARDS', border and scroll engraved top-strap and frame, the former signed, border engraved cylinder, later chequered walnut butt, scroll engraved butt-cap with hinged trap-cover, possibly associated, and Tranter Patent rammer (reblued throughout), London proof marks
4½in. (11.4cm.) barrel

拍品专文

Hugh Annesley served in South Africa during the Eighth Kaffir War (1851-3) and in the Crimea where his jaw was shattered during the Battle of the Alma in 1854. He became a Colonel of the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1860. He was the second son of William Richard Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley, and when his brother died unmarried in 1874 he succeeded as 5th Earl Annesley. He was elected as a Representative Peer in 1877 and died in 1908.