A RARE AND VERY UNUSUAL CASED 48-BORE JAMES WEBLEY PATENT 'LONGSPUR' (TRANSITIONAL SECOND/THIRD MODEL) FIVE-SHOT SINGLE-ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVER

BY JAMES WEBLEY, BIRMINGHAM, RETAILED BY LEFAUCHEUX, PARIS, SERIAL NO. 985, CIRCA 1855

细节

A RARE AND VERY UNUSUAL CASED 48-BORE JAMES WEBLEY PATENT 'LONGSPUR' (TRANSITIONAL SECOND/THIRD MODEL) FIVE-SHOT SINGLE-ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVER
BY JAMES WEBLEY, BIRMINGHAM, RETAILED BY LEFAUCHEUX, PARIS, SERIAL NO. 985, CIRCA 1855
With foliate and scroll engraved octagonal sighted barrel signed 'WEBLEYS PATENT IMPROVED', rifled with three grooves and retaining some original blued finish, blued cylinder engraved en suite and numbered from '1' to '5', blued border and scroll engraved frame with removable inspection plate signed 'JAMES WEBLEY' on the inside, scroll engraved case-hardened hammer with chequered spur, fluted figured walnut butt in the Continental fashion carved with foliage, blued shaped butt-cap engraved en suite, blued serial numbered border and scroll engraved trigger-guard and bright rammer, retaining some original blued finish throughout, Birmingham proof marks, in original fitted oak case lined in green velvet with some accessories including revolver flask and Japanned double-ended bullet-tin, the lid signed 'LEFAUCHEUX A PARIS' in gilt letters
6in. (15.3cm.) barrel

来源

Anon. sale, Holt's, London, 20 September 2007, Lot 574

出版

A.W.F. Taylerson, R.A.N. Andrews and J. Frith, The Revolver 1818-1865, 1968, p. 176, pl. 24 (top)

拍品专文

Incorporating British patent no. 743 of 29 March 1853

The present Lot is possibly the only 'Longspur' revolver made without full grip-straps. A transitional percussion revolver by Joseph Lang with a similar Continental-style fluted butt was sold from The Bell Collection, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 11 November 1998, Lot 86