A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CASED 40-BORE SHEATH PATENT FIVE-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER

BY HOLLIS & SHEATH, MAKERS TO H.M.H. BOARD OF ORDNANCE, LONDON, SERIAL NO. 45, CIRCA 1853

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A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CASED 40-BORE SHEATH PATENT FIVE-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER
BY HOLLIS & SHEATH, MAKERS TO H.M.H. BOARD OF ORDNANCE, LONDON, SERIAL NO. 45, CIRCA 1853
With blued octagonal barrel signed in full, engraved with a band of foliage at the muzzle and rifled with five grooves, case-hardened cylinder engraved with a band of foliage at the front edge, border and scroll engraved blued frame signed 'SHEATH'S PATENT NO. 45', blued hammer safety-stop, bright hammer and trigger, case-hardened barrel retaining thumb-screw, chequered figured walnut butt, blued border and scroll engraved trigger-guard, and butt-cap engraved with a flower-head on the hinged trap-cover, retaining nearly all its original finish throughout (with the exception of the butt-cap), London proof marks, in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize with accessories including a very rare Dixon revolver flask with angled nozzle, rare wad-cutter with centre-punch, cap tin with gold-coloured Eley embossed top, a fine Dixon oil bottle, and brass double-cavity bullet/ball mould, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon
6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) barrel

拍場告示

Please note that there is an as new Dixon oil bottle included with this Lot

拍品專文

Incorporating British patent no. 996 of 26 April 1853

The present Lot is regarded as the finest extant Sheath patent revolver with only six or seven examples thought to survive. Other Sheath patent revolvers noted as appearing on the open market include serial no. 23 (anon. sale, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 23 October 1997, Lot 236) and serial no. 59 (The Bell Collection, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 11 November 1998, Lot 125)

For further information please see A.W.F. Taylerson, R.A.N. Andrews and J. Frith, The Revolver 1818-1865, 1968, pp. 300-1