A Cased Pepperbox Revolver by Edge of Manchester.
A Cased Pepperbox Revolver by Edge of Manchester. With rounded barrels, border engraved white metal action with nipple-shield, decorated with scrolling foliage and signed on one side, EDGE MANCHESTER, bar-hammer and trigger guard decorated en suite, the former with thumb-piece 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: in an associated pistol box lined in green baize with some accessories including bullet mould, powder flask etc, the lid with cartouche engraved, ‘Mr Henry Samson’.
John William Edge [1830-1845]
Made percussion pocket pistols with folding trigger, and double barrel, side-by-side, percussion pistols with belt hook. Shop in Manchester.
A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York.
Dimensions:
Bore:
Barrel Length: 4 Inches (
Overall Length: 8.5 Inches (
£1,595.00
1 in stock
