A Rare Cased Deane Harding Double Action 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’, engraved ‘C. G. Collinwood’ on right hand side, London Proofs. Serial numbered cylinder and frame, the latter engraved 'Deane Harding Patent No. 15468P P.' Screwed barrel catch & cylinder stop, bright hammer & rammer, the latter with sprung side catch, trigger guard and ovoidal butt cap, chequered figured rounded butt. In its original lined & fitted mahogany case with accessories including Dixon & Sons powder flask, brass bullet mould, nipple key & turnscrew. The interior of the lid with Dean & Son trade label, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon engraved ‘C .G. Collinwood’.
Circa 1865
Revolver with nearly all original finish, some losses to left hand side.
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
Taylerson suggest that the 'P' suffix serial number range indicated manufacture under license by Charles Pryse and Richard Redman of Birmingham
Colonel C.G Collingwood great nephew of Admail Lord Collinwood, Joined 20th Regiment 1867. Adjutant 1874-1876; commanded 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers at Battle of Omdurman, In this battle the Anglo-Egyptian force commanded by Kitchener defeated the Mahdists and established British dominance in Sudan. Colonel Collingwood retired from the army in 1899.