A Very Rare Cased Pryse & Cashmore Deluxe Self Cocking Percussion Revolver. 8 ¾” overall, 3 ½” octagonal barrel, dove tailed fore sight, scroll engraving to the muzzle & breech, engraved on top flat ‘J. Beattie 205 Regent St. London’. London Proofs. Serial number ‘3’ on cylinder, rammer and barrel. Double link Blissett Patent under barrel rammer with sprung side catch, border & scroll engraved open iron frame with wedge locking, plain cylinder, self cocking action with spurless hammer. Chequered walnut grip with scroll engraved butt cap & trigger guard. In its original mahogany case lined in green baize with some accessories including powder flask with original lacquered finish, turn screw and nipple key, bullet mould, oil bottle & cap tin. Exterior of the lid with vacant circular brass escutcheon. Original J. Beattie label in lid.
Circa 1855.
Very rare pistol, the whole set in near mint condition. J. Beattie appears to be the only maker of the self cocking Pryse & Cashmore in 120 bore.
This revolver incorporates C. Pryse and P. Cashmore's British Patent No. 2018 of 6 December 1855 and the rammer appears to be based on J. Blissett's British Patent No. 2069 of 13 September 1855
See A.W.F. Taylerson, R.A.N. Andrews and J. Frith, ‘The Revolver 1818-1865’, 1968, pp. 228-230 and 309; and 'Brief Notes on Transitional Type Revolvers (part 2) and Daw Revolvers', J.B. Bell and J. Philpott, ‘Black Powder, June 1961’, pp. 2-3