**A VERY RARE 32 BORE IRISH HAND ROTATED SEVEN-SHOT REVOLVING CARBINE BY W. & J. RIGBY, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1838
with octagonal barrel group arranged as a cluster of six around the seventh central barrel, signed on one flat and fitted with spring bayonet with sliding thumb-piece release, the breeches numbered 1-6, the central barrel detonated simultaneously by the sixth, the six barrels with correspondingly numbered breech plugs, engraved tang, engraved nipple fence decorated with a band of conventional foliage, fitted with a retaining screw for the barrels on the left and a further screw on the right, signed back-action lock decorated with scrolls of foliage and border ornament, signed engraved side-plate en suite with the lock, highly figured walnut half-stock with finely chequered grip, engraved iron mounts comprising trigger-guard and butt-plate each decorated en suite with the lock, the latter with hinged trap containing its brass-tipped wooden ramrod, vacant silver escutcheon, and with some early finish throughout (patinated to rich brown)
27.8 cm; 11 in barrels

Literature
David Back, Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, 1992, p. 83, illustrated.

Sold for £34.13.0 to S. Crothwaite, 1838.
£7000-10000