26th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
428
A RARE CASED PRYCE & CASHMORE (DAW) PATENT PERCUSSION DOUBLE-ACTION SIX-SHOT REVOLVER
OF SMALL BORE RETAILED BY S. W. BERRY, WOODBRIDGE, MID-19TH CENTURY
with octagonal sighted rifled barrel engraved with foliate scrolls at the muzzle and on either side at the breech, raised sighting flat, and border engraved top-strap engraved with retailer’s details, London proof marks, plain cylinder, blued border engraved frame decorated with foliate scrollwork, trigger-guard and case-hardened ovoidal butt-cap en suite, spurred dolphin hammer, linked rammer with sprung side-catch, chequered figured rounded butt (minor chips), and some original finish on the frame: in associated mahogany case fitted and lined in blue baize with some accessories including Dixon & Sons powder-flask retaining some of its lacquered finish, and copper alloy bullet mould stamped ‘No. 250’, the exterior of the lid with shield-shaped vacant copper alloy escutcheon, 9.0 cm barrel
This revolver incorporates C. Pryse and P. Cashmore’s British Patent No. 2018 of 6 November 1855 and the rammer appears to be based on J. Blisset’s Patent No. 2069 of 13 September 1855. The top-strap is an unusual feature.
Sharman West Berry is recorded at Woodbridge, Suffolk between 1845 and 1870. He also dealt in archery and ‘Wildfowling guns a speciality’.
Sold for £1,400
OF SMALL BORE RETAILED BY S. W. BERRY, WOODBRIDGE, MID-19TH CENTURY
with octagonal sighted rifled barrel engraved with foliate scrolls at the muzzle and on either side at the breech, raised sighting flat, and border engraved top-strap engraved with retailer’s details, London proof marks, plain cylinder, blued border engraved frame decorated with foliate scrollwork, trigger-guard and case-hardened ovoidal butt-cap en suite, spurred dolphin hammer, linked rammer with sprung side-catch, chequered figured rounded butt (minor chips), and some original finish on the frame: in associated mahogany case fitted and lined in blue baize with some accessories including Dixon & Sons powder-flask retaining some of its lacquered finish, and copper alloy bullet mould stamped ‘No. 250’, the exterior of the lid with shield-shaped vacant copper alloy escutcheon, 9.0 cm barrel
This revolver incorporates C. Pryse and P. Cashmore’s British Patent No. 2018 of 6 November 1855 and the rammer appears to be based on J. Blisset’s Patent No. 2069 of 13 September 1855. The top-strap is an unusual feature.
Sharman West Berry is recorded at Woodbridge, Suffolk between 1845 and 1870. He also dealt in archery and ‘Wildfowling guns a speciality’.
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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