A 50 BORE TRANSITIONAL SIX-SHOT SELF-COCKING BAR-HAMMER PERCUSSION REVOLVER BY CLOUGH & SON

A 50 BORE TRANSITIONAL SIX-SHOT SELF-COCKING BAR-HAMMER PERCUSSION REVOLVER BY CLOUGH & SON, BATH, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1855-61, with octagonal blued sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, signed in full on the flat, scroll-engraved numbered cylinder, scroll-engraved open-topped frame, scroll-engraved rounded action incorporating a nipple-shield and fitted with scroll-engraved bar-hammer, scroll-engraved back-strap, finely chequered butt (small areas of very light pitting), scroll-engraved iron mounts comprising trigger-guard and butt-cap with circular trap decorated with an expanded flowerhead: in its fitted mahogany case lined in green baize, the lid with vacant brass escutcheon on the outside and applied with trade label for 9 New Bond Street, Bath on the inside, complete with some accessories comprising powder-flask, bullet-mould and loading rod, 11.5 cm barrel¦¦John Clough & Son are recorded at 9 New Bond Street, Bath, circa 1855-61.