Product Details
JOHN MANTON & SON, LONDON
A FINE CASED 15-BORE DOUBLE-BARRELLED PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, serial no. 9201
for 1825, converted from flintlock circa 1840, with 29in twist steel browned barrels, top rib signed in script 'JOHN MANTON AND SON DOVER STREET', platinum vents, scroll engraved breech ends and top-tang, flat lockplates signed 'JOHN MANTON AND SON PATENT' with engraved borders, foliate panels and a pheasant, scroll engraved dolphin head hammers, birds-eye maple half-stock with chequered wrist, steel long-eared scroll engraved heel-plate, steel trigger guard engraved en-suite with the locks, pineapple finial and ramrod throat, silver barrel-wedge escutcheons and brass-mounted ramrod with tool end (traces of original finish throughout), TOGETHER WITH a period brass cornered oak, compartmented case (some loose) lined in green baize, trade label in lid for 'WILLIAM & JOHN RIGBY, DUBLIN with provision for flask and other accessories, the end compartment containing a period pin punch
Provenance: We are kindly informed by the vendor that this and the following lot were the property of his forbear, John Farrell who was H.M. Governor of Tasmania between 1898 - 1900. He used them there for sporting purposes before returning to Ireland where they were passed down through the family.
Estimate £2,000-3,000