An 80 Bore Percussion Six-Shot Pepperbox Revolver by A. Thomson, Edinburgh. With rounded barrels each engraved around the muzzle, border engraved white metal action with nipple-shield, decorated with scrolling foliage and signed within an oval on one side, bar-hammer and trigger guard decorated en suite, the former with thumbpiece safety catch, ovoidal pommel-cap with hinged circular butt-trap cover engraved with flower hear, finely chequered rounded butt with vacant silver escutcheon, Birmingham proofs. 

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Alexander Thomson is recorded at various address in Edinburgh between 1840 and the year of his death in 1871. 

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