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Lot 237

A Cased 54-Bore Adams Patent 1851 Model Five-Shot Self-Cocking Percussion Revolver
Retailed By Rich.D. Jackson, 30 Portman Place, Edgeware Road, London, No. 12,293.R., Circa 1855

Antique Arms and Armour
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Cased 54-Bore Adams Patent 1851 Model Five-Shot Self-Cocking Percussion Revolver
Retailed By Rich.D. Jackson, 30 Portman Place, Edgeware Road, London, No. 12,293.R., Circa 1855

With octagonal sighted barrel engraved with a foliate band around the muzzle and with owner's name 'Warington Taylor. 29th., Regt.' along the bottom flat, border engraved top-strap signed in full and extending along the top flat, cylinder with foliate engraved forward edge, border engraved frame decorated with foliate scrollwork, sprung safety-stop and arbor-pin catch, trigger-guard and ovoidal butt-cap engraved with foliate scrollwork, chequered figured rounded butt, and silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and initials (steel parts bright overall): in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including R. Adams patent brass bullet mould and James Dixon & Sons powder-flask retaining much of its original lacquered finish, the exterior of the lid with vacant circular brass escutcheon, London proof marks (3)
16.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Lt. Warrington Taylor was commissioned as Ensign on 20 January 1854, was promoted Lieutenant on 23 June 1855 and retired on 3 October 1856

Richard 2 Jackson is recorded at 30 Portman Place, Edgeware Road, between 1847 and 1865

Offered with A.W.F. Taylerson, R.A.N. Andrews and J. Frith, The Revolver 1818-1865, 1968; and A.W.F. Taylerson, The Revolver 1889-1914, 1970

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