ANGLETERRE, milieu du XIXème siècle Percussion revolver on capsule, known as "Transition". Six-chamber cylinder. Test stamp. Steel frame, trigger guard and pommel engraved with foliage. Barrel with flats, then round. Smooth. Cal. 9.5 mm. Blackened wood checkered stock. Barrel length: 14.7 cm - Overall length: 31 cm. Mechanism to be revised, the hammer striking regularly between two chimneys. Wear and a few knocks; oxidation; remaining label on one side of the frame. This type of revolver with a horizontal firing pin, known as a hammer, was usually made in Birmingham around the middle of the 19th century. Several harquebusiers are known to have produced them, including John WIGGAN, who was active there between 1828 and 1862, and LACY & Co.