*** ULTRA RARE *** 1878 BRITISH / BOER WAR OFFICERS TRANTER REVOLVER + BOOKS *** START @ ONLY R1

You are bidding on an Ultra Rare Model 1878 British 6 shot double action 6 inch hexagonal barrel Tranter Revolver

used during the Anglo Boer War.

Also included are two books, the first is the War Repoter which covers the war from the eyes of the Boers.

This is a must have for any collector as it covers from when the first shot was fired with name, date and time right through all the successes and failures during the conflict, it even gives a short history of each Boer General that fought in the war.

There are hundreds of photographs that has never been seen before.

The second book is With The Flag To Pretoria and was printed in 1901 in London and also tells of the Anglo Boer War, but more from the British point of view also with hundreds of photographs.

 THE REVOLVER HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED BY A GUNSMITH SO NO LICENCE REQUIRED.

The Tranter revolver was a double-action cap & ball revolver invented around 1856 by English firearms designer William Tranter (1816 - 1890). Originally operated with a special dual-trigger mechanism (one to rotate the cylinder and cock the gun, a second to fire it) later models employed a single-trigger mechanism much the same as that found in the contemporary Beaumont-Adams Revolver. 

WILLIAM TRANTER

Design/Operation

The Tranter revolver was a "solid-frame" design, very similar in appearance to the Beaumont-Adams revolver. Over the course of the 3 models Tranter developed, the only significant change was to the attachment of the ramrod- In the first model it was detachable, on the second model it was attached to the frame by a hook on the fixed barrel, and in the third model (1856) it was attached to the barrel by a screw.

On the double-trigger Tranter revolvers, a second trigger below the trigger guard served to cock the gun. The hammer on this model had no spur and therefore could not be cocked with the thumb. To fire the weapon in the Single Action mode, one had to first press the lower trigger, which would pull the hammer back and rotate the cylinder; at this point one could fire the gun with a light pull on the upper trigger. To fire more rapidly, one could pull both triggers simultaneously, making it a double action weapon.

By 1867, his company expanded its production with a new factory in Aston Cross (England) under the name "The Tranter Gun and Pistol Factory" and, in 1878, he received a contract from the British Army for the supply of revolvers for use in the Zulu War. This was the last official use of Tranter revolvers by the British military, and Tranter retired in 1885, with his patent rights -Between 1849 and 1888 Tranter secured 24 patents firearms design patents and 19 cartridge patents- as well as the Tranter factory later being acquired by munitions manufacturer George Kynoch.