Main Sale - March 2013 : Sale A1070 Lot 460
JOHN MANTON, LONDON A FINE CASED PAIR OF 36-BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING-PISTOLS, serial nos. 4466,

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JOHN MANTON, LONDON
A FINE CASED PAIR OF 36-BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING-PISTOLS, serial no's. 4466,
for 1805 , with re-browned 10in. octagonal barrels, the top-flat signed in gold 'MANTON, LONDON', silver fore-sights, re-coloured breech-blocks with platinum lined touch-holes, top-tangs engraved with martial trophies, flat border engraved lockplates signed 'MANTON', sliding safes behind the scroll engraved hammers, rainproof pans, rollers to the frizzen-springs, walnut half-stocks with chequered bag-shaped butts, border and scroll engraved square-backed trigger-guard bows, silver oval take-down wedge escutcheons, horn tips to the fore-ends, rectangular silver escutcheons to the wrists and later ramrods TOGETHER WITH a period mahogany compartmented case relined in green baize, trade label for 'JOHN MANTON to inside of lid and brass ring handle to the outside

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Estimate £8,000-12,000