A Cased Webley Wedge Frame Double Action 80 Bore Revolver. 9 ½” overall, 4 ¼” Octagonal barrel with narrow sighting plane engraved on the top strap with ‘W.H. Blanch Liverpool’, Birmingham Proofs, the frame border engraved. 5 shot cylinder, under frame rammer, frame engraved ‘Patent No 4530’. Chequered walnut two piece grips with flat butt plate. In its original screwed lid mahogany case with all original accessories including 80 bore bullet mould powder flask, nipple key, cap tin, loading rod, lubricating grease tin, bullet bag and original key & trade label of William H. Blanch of Liverpool.
Circa 1862.
Good cased set some original finish in protected areas.
William Harnett Blanch son of John Blanch, Derby Square 1861-1867, inventor of the Vernier scale rifle sight.
See The Webley Story by W.C. Dowell pages37-8 and plate 19a