A Rare Cased Adams Percussion Revolving Rifle, 40 ½” overall, 23 ½” browned twist octagonal 32 bore sighted barrel fitted with blued folding back sight calibrated to 300 yards, windage adjustable fore sight, numbered '127' on the left of the breech, top strap signed 'DEANE ADAMS & DEANE, NO.30 KING WILLIAM ST. LONDON BRIDGE'. Borderline & scroll engraved solid frame engraved ‘Adams Patent No7307R’, applied nipple shield to right hand side, five shot cylinder, the hammer enclosed within a scroll engraved block behind the cylinder. Chequered walnut butt stock, iron heel plate & iron trigger guard bow with chequered flat front, in its original fitted oak case lined in green baize, with some contemporary accessories, the lid with trade label for 30 King William Street .
Circa 1855
A rare rifle with much original finish.
A relatively small number of these revolving rifles were produced, another, numbered 7756 and 128 is preserved in the Imperial War Museum, London, cat. No. FIR7831. Robert Adams patented his improvements in Rifles and Other Firearms in 1851, patent number 13,527.