Lot Essay
For further reading on the designs and business relationship between the patentees and Daw please see A.W.F. Taylerson, R.A.N. Andrews and J. Frith, The Revolver 1818-1865, 1968, chapter XV
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BY GEORGE H. DAW, 57, THREADNEEDLE ST., LONDON, SERIAL NO. 1781, CIRCA 1861-3
Details
A FINE AND RARE CASED ENGRAVED 90-BORE PRYSE & CASHMORE (DAW) PATENT FIVE-SHOT DOUBLE-ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVER
BY GEORGE H. DAW, 57, THREADNEEDLE ST., LONDON, SERIAL NO. 1781, CIRCA 1861-3
With blued round barrel signed in full on the full-length sighting flat and engraved with sprays of scrollwork at the breech and muzzle, rifled with five grooves, serial numbered case-hardened cylinder numbered from '1' to '5' on the front face, blued frame profusely engraved with scrollwork within borders of running foliage, blued hammer with chequered spur and integral flash-shield, chequered figured walnut butt, case-hardened border and scroll engraved spurred grip-strap and butt-cap, the latter with lanyard loop, border and scroll engraved trigger-guard retaining traces of original blued finish, and case-hardened rammer, retaining nearly all its original finish throughout, London proof marks, in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize with accessories including a brass double-cavity bullet mould, brass loading rod with worm and fine Hawksley revolver flask, the lid with George H. Daw trade label, the exterior with circular escutcheon
5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) barrel
BY GEORGE H. DAW, 57, THREADNEEDLE ST., LONDON, SERIAL NO. 1781, CIRCA 1861-3
With blued round barrel signed in full on the full-length sighting flat and engraved with sprays of scrollwork at the breech and muzzle, rifled with five grooves, serial numbered case-hardened cylinder numbered from '1' to '5' on the front face, blued frame profusely engraved with scrollwork within borders of running foliage, blued hammer with chequered spur and integral flash-shield, chequered figured walnut butt, case-hardened border and scroll engraved spurred grip-strap and butt-cap, the latter with lanyard loop, border and scroll engraved trigger-guard retaining traces of original blued finish, and case-hardened rammer, retaining nearly all its original finish throughout, London proof marks, in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize with accessories including a brass double-cavity bullet mould, brass loading rod with worm and fine Hawksley revolver flask, the lid with George H. Daw trade label, the exterior with circular escutcheon
5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) barrel
Provenance
The Warren Anderson Collection, Part II, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 14 July 1992, Lot 1402