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A Rare .380 Six-Shot Double-Action Percussion And Rim-Fire RevolverRetailed By F. Barnes & Co., London, No. 40351, Circa 1865
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,625 inc. premium
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A Rare .380 Six-Shot Double-Action Percussion And Rim-Fire Revolver
Retailed By F. Barnes & Co., London, No. 40351, Circa 1865
Retailed By F. Barnes & Co., London, No. 40351, Circa 1865
With blued octagonal sighted barrel, blued border engraved top-strap with retailer's details, blued cylinder with line engraved forward edge and angled nipples, blued border engraved action, trigger-guard and russet ovoidal butt-cap, bright sprung loading-gate, hammer, linked rammer and arbor-pin with sprung catch, chequered figured rounded butt, and in fine condition retaining much of its original finish (blueing flaked in places), Birmingham proof marks
11.5 cm. barrel
11.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Frederick Barnes had various premises in London between 1851 and 1904. He is also recorded as having premises in Birmingham between 1831 and 1903, and in Sheffield between 1839 and 1904
For a related revolver, formerly in the Taylerson Collection, see A.W.F. Taylerson, The Revolver 1865-1888, 1966, p. 155, pl. 51 (lower) 4




