Product Details
COLT, USA
A .455 DOUBLE-ACTION SIX-SHOT SERVICE-REVOLVER, MODEL 'NEW-SERVICE', serial no. 76769,
for 1915, with blued 5 1/2in. barrel, period London proofs, blued solid frame, swing out fluted cylinder with hand ejection, chequered hard rubber grips, lanyard ring at heel, retaining a strong amount of original finish and complete with a period full-flap leather service holster and an RAF lanyard
Provenance: This revolver was gifted to the vendor by Andre Kenny. Flt/Lt Kenny, as he was during World War Two, was an interesting and complex man. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge during the 1930's, he worked on archaelogical sites in Crete before and after the war. In 1942 he was a key member of the RAF Photographic Interpretation (P.I.) Unit at Medenham, reporting directly to Mr Duncan Sandys at the Air Ministry. He was credited with the identification of the German V2 site at Peenemunde (Ref 'V Weapons Hunt' by Col. Roy Stanley and 'The Eye of Intelligence' by Ursula Powys-Lybbe). Because of his fluency in French, late in the war he also conducted undercover missions in Europe. This revolver, believed originally used by his father in World War One, was carried by Kenny throughout
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Estimate £400-600
S5 - Sold as a Section 5 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act, Sections 7.3 and 7.1 Eligible
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