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Lot 132
A Very Rare 100-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Seven-Barrel Pepperbox RevolverCirca 1800
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,144 inc. premium
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A Very Rare 100-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Seven-Barrel Pepperbox Revolver
Circa 1800
Circa 1800
With bright hand rotated turn-off barrels numbered to correspond with the breech-block, the latter engraved with two lines of foliate decoration, border engraved action with space for signature in an oval against a martial trophy on one side, and on the other with similar decoration and a starburst behind the pan (light pitting), engraved thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel, steel-spring with rollers, border engraved cock (top jaw and screw replaced), trigger-guard decorated with a star on the bow, figured flat-sided butt with vacant silver escutcheon, London proof marks
6.4 cm. barrels
6.4 cm. barrels
Footnotes
These rare revolvers are known to have been made by Twigg, Bunney, and Nock. Cf. a fine example by Twigg, formerly in the collections of Clay P. Bedford and W. Keith Neal and sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour, 26 May 2021, lot 348 (£31,500 inc. premium)
The first five barrels are fired individually, and the last two together, giving an impressive finale




