Lot 28
  • 28

An Engraved IXL Side-Hammer Double-Action Navy Revolver, Numbered 5, circa 1857

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Steel, Walnut Wood
blued octagonal barrel with fore-sight, 5-shot cylinder, the revolver is partially scroll-engraved on side-hammer and on underside of trigger-guard, the number 5 marked on interior of trigger-guard, varnished walnut grips  

6-3/4 inch barrel



Only 50 examples of this revolver are believed to have been made around 1857.  

Provenance

Russell Goldstein 

Literature

Wilson, American Arms Collections, Percussion Colts and Their Rivals, The Al Cali Collection, page 118