Patent No. 3718/1877 was taken out by Christopher George Bonehill. Added an extra bite to the Purdey double bolt system, but sometimes made using the same lever work but no third bite ( Crudginton and Baker Volume 2).
Therefore most probably made for export by Bonehill in Birmingham.
The feather shaped sections appear from your photos to be of a piece with the metal of the barrel flats.
Is it an early use of the “clip lump” he included in his 1884 patent for a hammerless gun?
The clip lump seems from the descriptions to be very similar to the “slipper lump” currently used by B. Rizzini
Last edited by Parabola; 11/13/21 06:29 PM. Reason: Further thoughts
