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A Fine French Devisme Patent Six-Shot Percussion Revolver Of Small-BoreBy Devisme A Paris, No. 1306, Circa 1855
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,360 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Fine French Devisme Patent Six-Shot Percussion Revolver Of Small-Bore
By Devisme A Paris, No. 1306, Circa 1855
By Devisme A Paris, No. 1306, Circa 1855
With blued octagonal sighted detachable barrel rifled with six grooves and inlaid with engraved silver on each side of the breech, signed in gold gothic script along the blued top-strap, and retained by a lever-catch on the right engaging with the flat of the action below the cylinder, blued cylinder decorated with inlaid engraved silver and gold foliage within borders of thin silver strapwork, enclosed case-hardened action, trigger-guard and butt both decorated en suite, the latter stamped 'Devisme Bte.' and with threaded loading-rod with knurled knob-shaped grip, bright trigger and chequered hammer, rounded ebony grips carved with rocailles, and retaining much of its original finish, Liège proof and maker's marks
10.1 cm. barrel
10.1 cm. barrel
Footnotes
The maker is almost certainly Louis-François Devisme who exhibited at many of the Paris Expositions and was awarded a prize medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851 held in London








