Product Details
JOHN MANTON, LONDON
A FINE CASED 16-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, serial no. 6860,
for 1819, with browned twist-iron 32in. barrels, the top-rib signed 'JOHN MANTON & SON, DOVER STREET', white-metal bead fore-sight, flambé needles engraved to the rib-end, squared patent breech-block (traces of colour) with twin platinum lines and vents, border engraved bevel-edged bar-action locks with stepped tails, numbered on the top-edge and signed in script 'JOHN MANTON & SON, PATENT', musical trophies engraved to the tails, border and scroll engraved hammers with sunbursts to the top-jaws, patent rain-proof pans with inlet white-metal dividers, large rollers to the frizzen-springs, the front of both frizzens signed 'JNO MANTON & SON, PATENT' (traces of colour throughout), walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, carved raised tear-drop cheek-piece, iron heel-plate engraved with acanthus scrolls around the screws and scrolls and a further trophy to the top-spur, border and trophy engraved trigger-guard tang and bow, engraved pineapple finial, en-suite ramrod throat, plain thimbles and original brass mounted mahogany ramrod, TOGETHER WITH a period, probably associated mahogany storage case, concealed circular ring-handle to outside of lid, small parchment John Manton label to inside of lid, the interior compartmented and partly re-lined in green baize and containing a powder flask signed Hawksley (Riling 661), an octagonal oil-bottle and a modern flint-wallet and card-dispenser
Provenance: Ex Lot 428 Bonhams 24th November 2010 Sale. Previously in the possession of D.H.L. Back.
Literature: W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back's book 'The Mantons: Gunmakers' make mention of this piece being of the same type, other than the cheek piece, as gun no. 6661 (pg. 96)
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Estimate £10,000-15,000