AN EXTREMELY RARE 100-BORE MOORE & HARRIS PATENT SIX-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER

RETAILED BY H. HAND (LATE WITH MANTON & SON), LONDON, SERIAL NO. 104, DATED '1853'

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AN EXTREMELY RARE 100-BORE MOORE & HARRIS PATENT SIX-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER
RETAILED BY H. HAND (LATE WITH MANTON & SON), LONDON, SERIAL NO. 104, DATED '1853'
With tapering round sighted tip-up barrel, signed in full on a full length sighting flat and cut with multi-groove rifling, border and scroll engraved top-strap and frame, the latter with sprung barrel release button and signed on the underside 'Moore & Harris's Patent A.D 1853 No. 104.', plain reciprocating cylinder, small hammer cut with a notch rear-sight, chequered figured semi-saw-handled butt, and scroll engraved trigger-guard and butt-cap (some discolouration and minor shallow pitting throughout, signature worn, some wear to engraving on trigger-guard), London proof marks
6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) barrel

Provenance

Anon. sale, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 1 April 2004, Lot 409

Lot Essay

Incorporating British patent no. 69 of 1 October 1852

It is believed that only one further example of a Moore & Harris patent revolver has survived

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