A Fine and Very Rare Cased 80 Bore Tranter

A Fine and Very Rare Cased 80 Bore Tranter Patent Double Trigger Five Shot Treble Action Percussion Revolver by W. Tranter, Serial No. 13512.
£6,950.00

ID: 5123

With blued octagonal sighted barrel engraved with a band of foliage at the muzzle and sprays of scrollwork at the breech, border and scroll engraved blued top-strap and frame, blued arbor-pin, arbor-pin-catch and sprung hammer-safety, case-hardened cylinder cut with a decorative roped band towards the front edge, bright hammer and patent trigger, chequered figured walnut butt, blued border and scroll engraved trigger-guard, foliate and scroll engraved case-hardened butt-cap and bright border and scroll engraved Tranter patent rammer, retaining virtually all its original finish throughout, in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize with accessories including a fine Dixon revolver flask, a Tranter patent double-cavity brass bullet mould, a Dixon oil bottle and Japanned tins for Tranter's 'Lubricating Composition' and 'Lubricating Bullets', the exterior with circular brass escutcheon
4½in. (11.4cm.) barrel

 

Provenance: 

Rock Island Auction, Premier Firearms Auction, 30 November 2012, lot 104.

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