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A Rare 13-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By John Manton, London, No. 1273 For 1790

Antique Arms and Armour
6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 13-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By John Manton, London, No. 1273 For 1790

With browned twist sighted barrel in three stages, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and with oval gold-lined maker's stamp of second type, gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, tang finely engraved with a gundog and foliage, and incorporating a sighting groove engraved with a starburst, signed flat bevelled lock (some pitting) with safety-catch, gold-lined pan (gold incomplete) and roller acting against a ramp on the steel-spring, figured half-stock (repairs) with characteristically chequered grip and fore-end, butt with padded leather cheekpiece (expertly renewed), engraved steel mounts (pitted) including scroll trigger-guard with large pineapple finial, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's initials, horn fore-end cap, and later brass-mounted ramrod, London proof marks
86.9 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Previously unrecorded

For the maker's stamp see W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, 1966, pl. 67 (lower)

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
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