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A 50-Bore Percussion Self-Cocking Five-Shot Revolver Of Bentley Patent TypeRetailed By Shaw & Son, Worksop, No. A.760., Mid-19th Century
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £640 inc. premium
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A 50-Bore Percussion Self-Cocking Five-Shot Revolver Of Bentley Patent Type
Retailed By Shaw & Son, Worksop, No. A.760., Mid-19th Century
Retailed By Shaw & Son, Worksop, No. A.760., Mid-19th Century
With blued octagonal sighted barrel signed along the top flat, cylinder with turned forward edge and numbered from '1' to '5', border engraved frame, butt, trigger-guard and case-hardened hammer all decorated with scrolling foliage, the last with sprung safety-stop, rammer with knurled finial, chequered figured rounded grips, and some original finish, especially on the barrel, Birmingham proof marks
Footnotes
Cf. a very similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour, 25-26 May 2022, lot 321
Shaw & Son appear not to be recorded, though some information exists online stating that the site of the current Liquorice Gardens, Newcastle St., Worksop was once occupied by a branch of Reuben Shaw & Son's Ironmongery business, possibly the retailer of this revolver




