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EX W. KEITH NEAL: JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON
AN EXTREMELY RARE 26-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-RIFLE, serial no. 356,
for 1792, with well re-browned 30 3/4in. twist barrels rifled with multiple grooves, sunken top-rib with diminutive boat-shaped fore-sight and screw-down standing notch rear-sight, the breech blocks inlet with rose gold rectangular poincons marked 'JOSEPH MANTON PATENT' below crowns (traces of colour to breeches), gold lined touch-holes, shallow sighting groove to the engraved top-tang, plain flat locks with curled inwards stepped and pointed tails and engraved bevel-edges and signed below the gold-lined semi rain-proof pans 'JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON', carved and moulded swan-necked cocks with sliding safes to rear, roller frizzens and traces of colour, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, raised tear-drop cheek-piece, iron furniture including oversize trigger-guard bow, raised scrolled lower tang and pineapple finial (engraved detail rubbed), pineapple ramrod throat and twin plain pipes, complete with its original brass mounted ramrod and W. Keith Neal collection medallion numbered 'G260'
Provenance: Previously sold Christies, 'The W. Keith Neal Collection', Lot 78, 25-10-2001. Joseph Manton Double Rifles are extremely rare. Out of all the guns listed in W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back's publications 'The Mantons, Gunmakers' and 'The Manton Supplement', only five are double rifles, and one of those was made late on by Hollis and Sheath. This would seem to indicate double rifles form a production of less than 1% of all the Joseph Manton guns produced
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Estimate £3,000-5,000