26th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
433
A RARE 120-BORE PERCUSSION HARVEY’S PATENT 1854 SECOND MODEL ‘HAMMERLESS’ SELF-COCKING
SIX-SHOT REVOLVER, NO. 3999, MID-19TH CENTURY
with octagonal sighted rifled barrel retaining some blueing and engraved around the muzzle, serial numbered and engraved ‘Harvey’s Patent Breech Loading Revolving Pistol’ along the top flat, Birmingham proof marks, serial numbered cylinder numbered from ‘1’ to ‘6’ and engraved around the forward edge, border engraved action retaining traces of case-hardening and decorated with foliate scrollwork, enclosed hammer and engraved safety-stud on the left side, detachable combination tool and rammer with spring-catch and knurled tip, foliate scroll engraved trigger-guard, ovoidal butt-cap with foliate scroll engraved butt-trap cover, chequered figured rounded butt, and vacant silver escutcheon, 9.5 cm barrel
This revolver incorporates Harvey’s British Patent N. 2602 of 1834. See Taylerson et al, p. 305, pl. 34 (lower).
Sold for £750
SIX-SHOT REVOLVER, NO. 3999, MID-19TH CENTURY
with octagonal sighted rifled barrel retaining some blueing and engraved around the muzzle, serial numbered and engraved ‘Harvey’s Patent Breech Loading Revolving Pistol’ along the top flat, Birmingham proof marks, serial numbered cylinder numbered from ‘1’ to ‘6’ and engraved around the forward edge, border engraved action retaining traces of case-hardening and decorated with foliate scrollwork, enclosed hammer and engraved safety-stud on the left side, detachable combination tool and rammer with spring-catch and knurled tip, foliate scroll engraved trigger-guard, ovoidal butt-cap with foliate scroll engraved butt-trap cover, chequered figured rounded butt, and vacant silver escutcheon, 9.5 cm barrel
This revolver incorporates Harvey’s British Patent N. 2602 of 1834. See Taylerson et al, p. 305, pl. 34 (lower).
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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