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Auction archive: Lot number 271

A Very Rare Cased Pair Of Presentation Tranter Patent 54-Bore Third Model Five-Shot Self-Cocking Percussion Revolvers Retailed By Wm. Moore & Grey, 43 Old Bond St., London, Nos. 15126.T. And 15127.T., Dated 1862

Estimate
£0
Price realised:
£22,500
ca. US$36,033
Auction archive: Lot number 271

A Very Rare Cased Pair Of Presentation Tranter Patent 54-Bore Third Model Five-Shot Self-Cocking Percussion Revolvers Retailed By Wm. Moore & Grey, 43 Old Bond St., London, Nos. 15126.T. And 15127.T., Dated 1862

Estimate
£0
Price realised:
£22,500
ca. US$36,033
Beschreibung:

Each with blued sighted barrel engraved 'Spencer Chapman' along the bottom flat, and decorated with scrolling foliage around the muzzle and on each side at the breech, blued top strap with retailer's name and address within a foliate border, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened cylinder with knurled forward edge, blued border engraved frame, trigger-guard and ovoidal butt-cap all decorated with scrolling foliage, bright hammer, patent double-trigger and foliate scroll engraved rammer, sprung safety-stop and arbor-pin catch, chequered figured rounded butt with silver escutcheon engraved 'LC From DWC 1862', and retaining most of their blued and burnished finish (areas of minor rust patination and light pitting): in their original brass-mounted fitted oak case lined in purple velvet with accessories including James Dixon & Sons brass-mounted powder-flask with split-ring for suspension and retaining much of its original lacquered finish, brass bullet mould, and white-metal combined nipple-primer and percussion cap dispenser stamped 'Vincent & Son Jersey', the exterior with vacant circular brass escutcheon, London proof marks 15.2 cm. barrels

Auction archive: Lot number 271
Auction:
Datum:
18 Apr 2012
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Each with blued sighted barrel engraved 'Spencer Chapman' along the bottom flat, and decorated with scrolling foliage around the muzzle and on each side at the breech, blued top strap with retailer's name and address within a foliate border, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened cylinder with knurled forward edge, blued border engraved frame, trigger-guard and ovoidal butt-cap all decorated with scrolling foliage, bright hammer, patent double-trigger and foliate scroll engraved rammer, sprung safety-stop and arbor-pin catch, chequered figured rounded butt with silver escutcheon engraved 'LC From DWC 1862', and retaining most of their blued and burnished finish (areas of minor rust patination and light pitting): in their original brass-mounted fitted oak case lined in purple velvet with accessories including James Dixon & Sons brass-mounted powder-flask with split-ring for suspension and retaining much of its original lacquered finish, brass bullet mould, and white-metal combined nipple-primer and percussion cap dispenser stamped 'Vincent & Son Jersey', the exterior with vacant circular brass escutcheon, London proof marks 15.2 cm. barrels

Auction archive: Lot number 271
Auction:
Datum:
18 Apr 2012
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
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