A Transition Type black powder, cap and ball Revolver
Engraving to Cylinder, Lock plates, trigger guard and hinged butt plate Serial No. 57
This is a 6 shot revolver of around 1840
Fine checkering with no cracks in wood
C1840 revolver
English Transition Revolver C 1840
Birmingham Proof Marked to each cylinder
Engraved to sides, trigger guard, hammer and but plate
A very clean 1849 Colt
Excellent original wood
All matching serial numbers Serial No. 50332
quiet visable cylinder scene
It is rare to see an 1849 Colt in such good overall condition.
W.A Beckwith Pepper Pot revolver 1840
a museum quality Beckwith of London
99.9% original
extensive and sharp egraving
The condition is amazing
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It would be very difficult, may be impossible, to find a finer example of a 180 year old pistol
As a licensed armourer, in my 50 years of working with thousands of guns, both new and old, I have never seen a 180 year old gun in this condition.
It is like a window in time.
Like stepping back in time and seeing what a gun buyer would have seen when he walked into a gun shop around 1840.
In every way this is museum quality
Perfection retained for almost 2 centuries.
Perfection retained for almost 2 centuries.