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A Rare 38-Bore Early Beaumont-Adams Patent Five-Shot Double-Action Percussion Revolver With War Department MarkBy Deane, Adams & Deane, London, No. B. 25 And 15,928.R., Circa 18552
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Find your local specialistA Rare 38-Bore Early Beaumont-Adams Patent Five-Shot Double-Action Percussion Revolver With War Department Mark
By Deane, Adams & Deane, London, No. B. 25 And 15,928.R., Circa 18552
By Deane, Adams & Deane, London, No. B. 25 And 15,928.R., Circa 18552
18.7 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Museum of Artillery, Rotunda, Woolwich, no. MA1512
Literature:
J.P. Kaestlin, Catalogue of the Museum of Artillery in the Rotunda at Woolwich, Part II, Personal Arms, H.M.S.O., London, 1963, p. 37, no. 5 or 6
One of one hundred ordered by the Board of Ordnance for trial purposes in 1855 or one of two thousand made in both 54-bore and 38-bore supplied to Ordnance towards the end of the same year. See Howard L. Blackmore, British Military Firearms 1650-1850, 1961, p. 255 and p. 264, pl. 83 (2); and A.W.F. Taylerson, R.A.N. Andrews, J, Frith, The Revolver 1818-1865, 1968, pp. 118-119








