A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CASED 40-BORE SHEATH PATENT FIVE-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER
BY HOLLIS & SHEATH, MAKERS TO H.M.H. BOARD OF ORDNANCE, LONDON, SERIAL NO. 45, CIRCA 1853
A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CASED 40-BORE SHEATH PATENT FIVE-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER BY HOLLIS & SHEATH, MAKERS TO H.M.H. BOARD OF ORDNANCE, LONDON, SERIAL NO. 45, CIRCA 1853 With blued octagonal barrel signed in full, engraved with a band of foliage at the muzzle and rifled with five grooves, case-hardened cylinder engraved with a band of foliage at the front edge, border and scroll engraved blued frame signed 'SHEATH'S PATENT NO. 45', blued hammer safety-stop, bright hammer and trigger, case-hardened barrel retaining thumb-screw, chequered figured walnut butt, blued border and scroll engraved trigger-guard, and butt-cap engraved with a flower-head on the hinged trap-cover, retaining nearly all its original finish throughout (with the exception of the butt-cap), London proof marks, in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize with accessories including a very rare Dixon revolver flask with angled nozzle, rare wad-cutter with centre-punch, cap tin with gold-coloured Eley embossed top, a fine Dixon oil bottle, and brass double-cavity bullet/ball mould, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon 6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) barrel
A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CASED 40-BORE SHEATH PATENT FIVE-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER
BY HOLLIS & SHEATH, MAKERS TO H.M.H. BOARD OF ORDNANCE, LONDON, SERIAL NO. 45, CIRCA 1853
A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CASED 40-BORE SHEATH PATENT FIVE-SHOT SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER BY HOLLIS & SHEATH, MAKERS TO H.M.H. BOARD OF ORDNANCE, LONDON, SERIAL NO. 45, CIRCA 1853 With blued octagonal barrel signed in full, engraved with a band of foliage at the muzzle and rifled with five grooves, case-hardened cylinder engraved with a band of foliage at the front edge, border and scroll engraved blued frame signed 'SHEATH'S PATENT NO. 45', blued hammer safety-stop, bright hammer and trigger, case-hardened barrel retaining thumb-screw, chequered figured walnut butt, blued border and scroll engraved trigger-guard, and butt-cap engraved with a flower-head on the hinged trap-cover, retaining nearly all its original finish throughout (with the exception of the butt-cap), London proof marks, in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize with accessories including a very rare Dixon revolver flask with angled nozzle, rare wad-cutter with centre-punch, cap tin with gold-coloured Eley embossed top, a fine Dixon oil bottle, and brass double-cavity bullet/ball mould, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon 6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) barrel
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