A Cased Allen & Wheelock Side-Hammer Navy Revolver, Serial No. 118, circa 1858 blued octagonal barrel with fore-sight, top flat marked ALLEN & WHEELOCK, left-side flat marked ALLEN'S PATENT. DEC. 15, 1857., underside of frame marked PATENTED / JAN. 13, 1857. and 118, also numbered 118 on underside of barrel, and inside of grips, cylinder with a bucolic wooded scene depicting a rabbit, buck, deer, case-hardened hammer, varnished walnut grips, mahogany case partitioned and lined with blue velvet and equipped with steel bullet and ball mold (left in-the-white), sloping-charger powder flask embossed with scene of dog and two birds, cap tin: FOIL COVERED PERCUSSION CAPS / Successors to E. JOYCE / LONDON / QUALITY F. 3 / WARRANTED / NOT TO FLY OR MISS FIRE, a wood cleaning rod affixed to the case lid, written on the underside of the case in ink : Presented to Cyrus W. Kellogg / By Mrs. M.W.R. Wayland. / 175 Whitney Ave. / New Haven / Conn. / May 28th 1912 7-7/8 inch barrel Production of this model was limited; it is estimated approximately 100 were made. Revolver almost certainly belonged to Judge Francis Wayland, a New Haven lawyer and probate court judge, who later was Lt. Governor of Connecticut (1869). Judge Wayland and his wife lived at 175 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. Cyrus W. Kellogg owned a business (Cyrus W. Kellogg & Co.) in New Haven.
A Cased Allen & Wheelock Side-Hammer Navy Revolver, Serial No. 118, circa 1858 blued octagonal barrel with fore-sight, top flat marked ALLEN & WHEELOCK, left-side flat marked ALLEN'S PATENT. DEC. 15, 1857., underside of frame marked PATENTED / JAN. 13, 1857. and 118, also numbered 118 on underside of barrel, and inside of grips, cylinder with a bucolic wooded scene depicting a rabbit, buck, deer, case-hardened hammer, varnished walnut grips, mahogany case partitioned and lined with blue velvet and equipped with steel bullet and ball mold (left in-the-white), sloping-charger powder flask embossed with scene of dog and two birds, cap tin: FOIL COVERED PERCUSSION CAPS / Successors to E. JOYCE / LONDON / QUALITY F. 3 / WARRANTED / NOT TO FLY OR MISS FIRE, a wood cleaning rod affixed to the case lid, written on the underside of the case in ink : Presented to Cyrus W. Kellogg / By Mrs. M.W.R. Wayland. / 175 Whitney Ave. / New Haven / Conn. / May 28th 1912 7-7/8 inch barrel Production of this model was limited; it is estimated approximately 100 were made. Revolver almost certainly belonged to Judge Francis Wayland, a New Haven lawyer and probate court judge, who later was Lt. Governor of Connecticut (1869). Judge Wayland and his wife lived at 175 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. Cyrus W. Kellogg owned a business (Cyrus W. Kellogg & Co.) in New Haven.
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