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“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler" is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=e9o72q

Courtesy of esteemed collector Frank Graves, Professor Ben Nicholson and I are disassembling a gorgeous example of a second model Collier revolver today. The Collier really is equal parts art and engineering; half made in the finest British bespoke tradition and half by the newest American machine methods.

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Art and Engineering: Field Stripping a Second Model Collier (ad-free)

“Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier and Artemas Wheeler" is available right now for preorder on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/clockwork-basilisk?ref=e9o72q Courtesy of esteemed collector Frank Graves, Professor Ben Nicholson and I are disassembling a gorgeous example of a second model Collier revolver today. The Collier really is equal parts art and engineering; half made in the finest British bespoke tradition and half by the newest American machine methods.

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Luís Moreira

Fantastic workmanship.

Anonymous

No wishing to be crass, but does the owner of this beautiful piece have an idea of its valuation?

Sonny Hughes

Curious about the loads for these. Given the period, I would assume a patched round ball, especially for the rifled gun. but it also seems like the patch could cause issues with cylinder movement after some fouling.

Sonny Hughes

And I would love to see the tooling that was used to do that work. The workmanship is amazing.

Guido Schriewer

man if that atoprimer works allright... the bomb! even with the manual indexing that beats having 5 pistols for damn sure. SOME owner left the flashshields off if still need to reload I'd imagine. if one haven't solved an issue with those five probably rather needs a shovel. cause one would be in the stuff deeeep. darn thing is quite beautiful looking, too.

Guido Schriewer

well trashtalk its value down to say a highpoint maybe. I buy a whole set then... I mean who would want a manual indexing flinchlock revolver thing anyways... (don't even dare to imagine prices!)

D Haire

And you shoot it tomorrow??? 😝

EyeBall

What a fantastic example of art and engineering.

Jeff Price

so this must predate the patents for drilling revolver cylinders??? Crazy.