26th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
434
A VERY RARE 54 BORE PERCUSSION PENNELL PATENT ‘HAMMERLESS’ SELF-COCKING SIX-SHOT BELT REVOLVER
RETAILED BY G.W. BALES, IPSWICH, CIRCA 1855
with octagonal sighted rifled barrel engraved with retailer’s details along the top flat, engraved around the muzzle and with foliate scrolls at the breech, Birmingham proof marks, pivoting patent barrel-catch and contemporary ramrod-lever mount, plain cylinder, patent border engraved action decorated with foliate scrollwork and with safety-stud on the left side, border engraved striker housing inscribed ‘Patent’ on a scroll, foliate scroll engraved tang and trigger-guard, ovoidal butt-cap with hinged circular butt-trap cover engraved with a scroll, finely chequered figured rounded butt with flared pommel (minor old chip), vacant white-metal escutcheon, belt hook, and traces of original finish (barrel and trigger-guard with old light pitting), 16.3 cm barrel
This revolver, one of only thirteen that are thought to survive, incorporates Thomas Pennell’s British Patent No.1038 of 29th April 1853. For more information see Taylerson et al 1968, p. 301
Sold for £950
RETAILED BY G.W. BALES, IPSWICH, CIRCA 1855
with octagonal sighted rifled barrel engraved with retailer’s details along the top flat, engraved around the muzzle and with foliate scrolls at the breech, Birmingham proof marks, pivoting patent barrel-catch and contemporary ramrod-lever mount, plain cylinder, patent border engraved action decorated with foliate scrollwork and with safety-stud on the left side, border engraved striker housing inscribed ‘Patent’ on a scroll, foliate scroll engraved tang and trigger-guard, ovoidal butt-cap with hinged circular butt-trap cover engraved with a scroll, finely chequered figured rounded butt with flared pommel (minor old chip), vacant white-metal escutcheon, belt hook, and traces of original finish (barrel and trigger-guard with old light pitting), 16.3 cm barrel
This revolver, one of only thirteen that are thought to survive, incorporates Thomas Pennell’s British Patent No.1038 of 29th April 1853. For more information see Taylerson et al 1968, p. 301
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 26th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
The Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria department run by Thomas Del Mar is now a recognised world leader in this field.
The sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.
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