THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN A FINE CASED 5 SHOT 54 BORE EARLY TRANTER PATENT THIRD MODEL SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER, RETAILED BY ROBERT TAYLOR PRITCHETT 86 ST. JAMES'S ST, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, NO. 7479T, CIRCA 1858 with blued octagonal sighted 6in barrel engraved with a band of foliage around the muzzle and with scrolling foliage on each side of the breech, foliate and border-engraved blued top flat signed 'R.T. Pritchett, 86, St, James St, London', engraved blued frame profusely decorated with scrolls and border ornament, the right side engraved 'N° 7479.T.', the left side stamped 'WH', fitted with bright patent scroll-and border-engraved rammer stamped 'W.T. Tranter's Patent' in an oval, bright patent double trigger stamped 'W. Tranter's Patent' in an oval (very small areas of pitting), profusely scroll-and border-engraved case hardened cylinder stamped with London proof marks, blued safety catch and arbor pin, finely chequered figured walnut butt, engraved case-hardened butt cap, engraved blued trigger-guard, in very good condition and retaining virtually all its original finish: in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize, the lid with vacant circular brass escutcheon, complete with accessories comprising bag-shaped copper flask by G & J.W Hawksley, double cavity brass 54 bore mould for pointed bullets stamped "54" and numbered to the revolver "7479", cleaning rod with rammer, jag and worm ends, oil bottle by James Dixon & Sons, turnscrew, nipple key, Kynoch & Co. japanned cap tin, japanned tin of Tranter lubricating composition, tin of Tranter lubricating bullets, and bone nipple box containing two spare nipples 29.8 cm; 11 3/4 in overall Literature Wolfgang Berk, William Tranter Birmingham 1849-1890, 2008, page 58. William Tranter traded from 13 St. Mary's Row, Birmingham 1849-75, and between 1853-65 was granted six British patents relating to revolvers and their accessories, and was licensed by Deane, Adams & Deane to make complete Adams' self-cocking revolvers and to use Adams' patented frame for his own revolvers. Robert Taylor Pritchett was contractor to the East India Company, Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1854 and traded from 86 St James's Street from 1856-62. He retired from the gun trade in 1865 and took up art. He illustrated Sibbald Scott's "British Army" in 1868, exhibited at The Royal Academy and became Private Painter to Queen Victoria.