Lot 70
  • 70

An Engraved Springfield Arms Co. (although unmarked) Pocket Revolver, Serial No. 76, circa 1850

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Steel, Silver, Walnut wood
blued round barrel with fore-sight engraved with floral scrolls and decorated at muzzle with engraved band, cylinder etched with panoply-of-arms and foliate scrolls, blued frame and lock-plate scroll-engraved highlighted with stippled fields, polished-steel scroll-engraved trigger-guard (lacking rear screw), color case-hardened loading-lever, varnished walnut grips

7-inch barrel



An estimated 1,000 were produced.  

Literature

Sellers, The William M. Locke Collection, page 401