Product Details
JOHN MANTON & SON
A 10-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, serial no. 10813,
for circa 1835-39, with 28in. barrels signed on the top-rib 'JOHN MANTON & SON, DOVER STREET' (faint, rubbed), engraved breech-ends with engraved rib-end and engraved platinum plugs, fully engraved top-tang featuring a pheasant, border, scroll and game-scene engraved bar-action locks signed 'JNO MANTON & SON, PATENT', scroll engraved hammers, walnut half-stock (holed at fore-end, chequering removed) with rectangular silver escutcheon at wrist, iron heel-plate, scroll engraved trigger-guard tang and bow, pineapple finial, en-suite ramrod throat and original brass-tipped mahogany ramrod, the whole worn with some loss to detail
Provenance: This sporting gun is the property of Lord Balfour of Burleigh and has almost certainly remained with the family since completion. Associated provenance may be found under Lots 1238 and 1337.
Estimate £500-700