Fine Modern & Antique Guns - December 2018 : Sale A1218 Lot 675
C.H. GILKS & CO., LONDON A FINE .442 (ELEY) SIX-SHOT REVOLVER, MODEL WEBLEYS SOLID FRAME HOLSTER-PISTOL, serial no. 26707

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C.H. GILKS & CO., LONDON
A FINE .442 (ELEY) SIX-SHOT REVOLVER, MODEL 'WEBLEY'S SOLID FRAME HOLSTER-PISTOL', serial no. 26707
circa 1870, with blued octagonal 4 1/4in. barrel, radiused muzzle, solid top-strap thickened to allow for external ratchet indexing and signed 'C.H. GILKS & CO, TOWER HILL, LONDON', crescent fore-sight, sighting groove to top-strap, plain blued cylinder, cylinder arbor retained by a wing-nut, blued solid frame with external 'L' spring and signed 'W&S' with the 'winged bullet' trademark, polished double-action hammer and trigger, chequered walnut butt of pocket model form with shallow hump to rear and iron butt-cap with centrally stored ejector pin, the whole retaining the majority of its factory blued finish

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Estimate £800-1,200
(USD 1,037-1,555)
(EUR 888-1,332)


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Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament