Circa 1870 Revolvers

[Roy]

Hi Chaps,

I wanted to share two important additions to my collecting from this year, the link to 'militaria' is tenuous hence my including them in this area.

Two circa 1870 English revolvers, both made by Tipping & Lawden of Birmingham (but unmarked). Both in .450 Boxer (aka .450 Adams). This was the very first self-contained metallic cartridge adopted by the British military, so quite historic. These though are not military revolvers but high quality commercial examples.

The larger one is the Thomas Patent 'simultaneous extracting' revolver - this was Britain's answer to this problem but clearly fell by the wayside.

Both of these are in superb condition and once I get around to having some custom ammo made up, I plan to shoot both.

Enjoy. (I know I do..)

Cheerio,

Roy