A Rare Cased Deane Harding Second Model Percussion Revolver. 13” overall, 6 1/8” octagonal sighted 54 bore take-down barrel hinged to the top of the standing breech, blued top strap signed ‘Dean & Son 30 King William Street London Bridge’, London Proofs. Serial numbered 5 shot cylinder & frame, the latter engraved 'Deane Harding Patent No. 6,561L'. Screwed barrel catch & cylinder stop, bright hammer & rammer, the latter with sprung side catch, trigger guard & ovoidal butt cap, chequered figured rounded butt. In its original lined & fitted screwed oak case with accessories including: extra blued cylinder serial numbered ‘No. 6, 560 L’, Dixon & Sons powder flask, brass bullet mould, cleaning rod, oil bottle, cap bag, nipple key & wad cutter. The exterior with circular brass escutcheon.
Circa 1865
Revolver with nearly all original finish.
John Deane & Son, successors to Deane, Adams & Deane, were the manufacturers of revolvers under William Harding's British Patent Nos. 669 & 1159 of 1858.
See J. Bell and J. Philpott 'Brief Notes on Deane-Harding Percussion Revolvers', Black Powder, December 1960, pp. 10-12.