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A CASED .320 (RIMFIRE) TRANTER'S PATENT REVOLVER RETAILED BY J.H. CRANE, LONDON, serial no. 9399,
being an 1868 Long Ejector model circa 1870, with octagonal 3 3/4in. barrel, the top-flat signed 'J.H. CRANE, 5 ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON', the right side upper flat engraved 'M D'ARCY WYVILL ESQ', crescent fore-sight, sighting groove to the solid top-strap, borderline engraved frame with plain five-shot cylinder, side loading gate, double action mechanism with spurred hammer, chequered walnut semi saw-handled grip with shallow domed iron cap and guarded trigger, the underside of barrel with distinctive crane-mounted 'long' ejector, traces only of finish and in a period oak casing for another revolver, lined and compartmented in green baize, with a Geo. Daw & Co. parchment label and a number of added later accessories
Provenance: This revolver was almost certainly the property of Marmaduke D'Arcy Wyvill (5 March 1849 - 23 September 1918), the British Conservative Party politician.
He unsuccessfully contested the Bishop Auckland division of County Durham at the 1885 general election, losing by a wide margin to the Liberal Party candidate, whose majority was more than 44% of the votes. Wyvill did not stand for Parliament again until the 1895 general election, when he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Otley division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, winning a seat which had previously been held by the Liberals in 1885. However, his majority of only 48 votes (just over half of one percent of the total) was overturned at the 1900 general election, and after this second defeat he did not ever stand again
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Estimate £500-700
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament