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length 34,2 cm
Octagonal, 8", rifled, 36 cal. barrel, with silver-coloured metal foresight (bent on one side). Some signs of use inside, clean bore, clearly visible rifling. Marked "ALLEN & WHEELOCK WORCHESTER MASS US / ALLEN'S PT'S. JAN 13 DEC 15 1857" on the left side, in two lines. Six-shot cylinder with well-preserved and clearly visible engraving of a deer in the woods. Working mechanism. Frame with lever of the cartridge rammer at the trigger guard. Wooden grip scales marked "1xx", coeval serial number inside the grip, on the lower side of the barrel and on the cylinder. Keeping about 70% of its original bluing. Hammer and cylinder with well-preserved case hardening. Complete with a removable shoulder stock, apparently of antique manufacture, fixing in the special open-work in the metal grip straps. Silver-coloured, non-ferrous metal (German silver?) clutch, walnut butt stock, iron butt plate engraved with scrolls and remains of bluing. In its antique, English-style, wooden case, with a special compartment for the revolver and the stock. Green cloth lining. Various accessories including: pin to fix the stock on the grip, nipple wrench, flask, bullet mold, ramrod, and others. Interesting Navy revolver, among the early samples of the second Model, indeed it features the intermediate barrel markings, the type-one side plate and, moreover, the early friction latch system for the trigger guard. A very rare revolver, which is estimated to have been produced in no more than 750 pieces (for only two or three years of production) with constant changes during the production; the first model consists of the first 100 pieces, the model presented here is one of the first of the second series, given its low serial number and its construction characteristics that make it different from the later models, and it is made even rarer by the removable stock, probably a single order, made by a skilled gunsmith of the time on commission of the customer. See similar items in "Ethan Allen and Allen & Wheelock - their guns and their legacy" by Paul Henry (Mowbray Publishing, USA, 2006) pp. 88-89, one in a case (but without removable stock) on p. 86.
Octagonal, 8", rifled, 36 cal. barrel, with silver-coloured metal foresight (bent on one side). Some signs of use inside, clean bore, clearly visible rifling. Marked "ALLEN & WHEELOCK WORCHESTER MASS US / ALLEN'S PT'S. JAN 13 DEC 15 1857" on the left side, in two lines. Six-shot cylinder with well-preserved and clearly visible engraving of a deer in the woods. Working mechanism. Frame with lever of the cartridge rammer at the trigger guard. Wooden grip scales marked "1xx", coeval serial number inside the grip, on the lower side of the barrel and on the cylinder. Keeping about 70% of its original bluing. Hammer and cylinder with well-preserved case hardening. Complete with a removable shoulder stock, apparently of antique manufacture, fixing in the special open-work in the metal grip straps. Silver-coloured, non-ferrous metal (German silver?) clutch, walnut butt stock, iron butt plate engraved with scrolls and remains of bluing. In its antique, English-style, wooden case, with a special compartment for the revolver and the stock. Green cloth lining. Various accessories including: pin to fix the stock on the grip, nipple wrench, flask, bullet mold, ramrod, and others. Interesting Navy revolver, among the early samples of the second Model, indeed it features the intermediate barrel markings, the type-one side plate and, moreover, the early friction latch system for the trigger guard. A very rare revolver, which is estimated to have been produced in no more than 750 pieces (for only two or three years of production) with constant changes during the production; the first model consists of the first 100 pieces, the model presented here is one of the first of the second series, given its low serial number and its construction characteristics that make it different from the later models, and it is made even rarer by the removable stock, probably a single order, made by a skilled gunsmith of the time on commission of the customer. See similar items in "Ethan Allen and Allen & Wheelock - their guns and their legacy" by Paul Henry (Mowbray Publishing, USA, 2006) pp. 88-89, one in a case (but without removable stock) on p. 86.
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