The pistol has a 5 ½” octagonal barrel (11 ½” overall). Beneath the hammer arm is a safety catch which functions as it should. It has the correct captive loading lever and side mounted hammer. This is an excellent, original, cased Kerr single action revolver in the scarce. It is easily recognised by its side-mounted hammer. As a result, the London Armoury Company became a major arms supplier to the Confederacy, selling the most of the 11,000 Kerr revolvers produced to Huse. Bulloch contracted for all the rifles and revolvers the Armoury could produce (and the Confederate government could pay for). In November 1861, 1,600 revolvers were purchased for the Union army, at $18.00 a piece. When the American Civil War began in 1860 and the governments of both the United States and the Confederacy began purchasing arms in Britain.
Most were made in 44 Calibre (54 Bore) and only a few in the smaller. Kerr's Patent Revolver was an unusual 5-shot revolver manufactured from 1859 to 1866 by the London Armoury Company. The London Armoury Company manufactured military rifles and revolvers. 1722 of July 28, 1855, and when Adams left the Deane brothers to found the London Armoury Company on February 9, 1856, Kerr went with him.
Kerr developed an improvement to the Adams revolver, British Patent No. Robert Adams, one of the partners and inventor of the Adams revolver, was Kerr's cousin. James Kerr had been the foreman for the Deane, Adams and Deane gun factory.
36 Calibre Single Action Percussion Revolver With Side Mounted Hammer Serial Number 430 (Serial Number Range Of LAC’s American Civil War Confederate Contract) - 18758 **RARE**MINT BORE**Cased, London Armoury Company / Alexander Henry Edinburgh Kerr’s Patent.
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