Product Details
JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON
A CASED PAIR OF 44-BORE PERCUSSION OFFICERS PISTOLS, serial no's. 6868,
for 1814, converted from flintlock, with octagonal 10in. barrels, bead fore-sights, standing notch rear-sights to the engraved top-tangs, blued breech-blocks with silver poincons marked 'BOSTON' in raised letters, platinum lines, flat border and scroll engraved pointed tail locks signed 'JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON', sliding safes behind the scroll engraved slab-sided hammers, walnut half-stocks with chequered bag-shaped butts, engraved iron butt-caps, iron trigger-guard bows engraved with martial trophies and the serial number, horn fore-end tips and replacement under-barrel ramrods, refinished throughout, TOGETHER WITH a replacement mahogany storage case lined in green baize and containing a scissors mould, a nipple key a lozenge bodied flask, a cleaning rod and a cap tin
Literature: W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back's book 'THE MANTONS, GUNMAKERS' lists pair 6868 as 'A pair of single barrel 44-bore percussion pistols, flintlock converted to caplock'. It further states that the conversion work was carried out by John Boston of Wakefield, Yorkshire who was responsible for the new breech plugs marked 'BOSTON'
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Estimate £2,500-3,500