A MAGNIFICENT CASED AND ENGRAVED 54-BORE TRANTER PATENT 'DOUBLE-TRIGGER' (SECOND MODEL) FIVE-SHOT SINGLE-ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVER

RETAILED BY J.W. EDGE, MANCHESTER, SERIAL NO. 6116.T, CIRCA 1856

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A MAGNIFICENT CASED AND ENGRAVED 54-BORE TRANTER PATENT 'DOUBLE-TRIGGER' (SECOND MODEL) FIVE-SHOT SINGLE-ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVER
RETAILED BY J.W. EDGE, MANCHESTER, SERIAL NO. 6116.T, CIRCA 1856
With blued octagonal sighted barrel engraved with sprays of scrollwork at the breech and a band of foliage at the muzzle, blued border and scroll engraved top-strap signed by the retailer, case-hardened cylinder finely engraved with swags of scrollwork and with roped band at the front edge, blued frame profusely engraved with scrollwork and beadwork borders, bright hammer, trigger-mechanism and rammer peg-mount, blued arbor-pin, arbor-pin-catch and sprung hammer-safety, finely chequered figured walnut butt, case-hardened foliate and scroll engraved grip-strap and butt-cap, blued border and scroll engraved trigger-guard, and bright scroll engraved detachable patent rammer with fixed head, in as new unfired condition throughout, in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize with accessories including a very fine Dixon revolver flask that never appears to have contained powder, and brass double-cavity bullet mould, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon engraved with a crest and the initials 'G.J.M.R.'
6¼in. (15.7cm.) barrel

Provenance

The Warren Anderson Collection, Part II, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 14 July 1992, Lot 1373

Lot Essay

Incorporating British patent no. 212 of 28 January 1853

This revolver is possibly the finest extant example of a Tranter Second Model revolver, and is certainly the finest example we have encountered

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