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Lot 294
Two Oak Gun CasesThe First By Thomas Manton, 59 Princes Street, Leicester Square, Circa 1815, The Second Circa 1800
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £480 inc. premium
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The First By Thomas Manton, 59 Princes Street, Leicester Square, Circa 1815, The Second Circa 1800
The First By Thomas Manton, 59 Princes Street, Leicester Square, Circa 1815, The Second Circa 1800
The first originally lined and fitted for a d.b. flintlock sporting gun (interior missing), the interior of the lid (moth damaged) with maker's illustrated trade label of circa 1814-16, the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle; the second of similar form, lined and fitted (moth damaged, compartments incomplete) for a flintlock sporting gun, the exterior of the lid with flush-fitting brass carrying handle (2)
91 cm. x 21 cm. and 90.8 cm. x 21.6 cm.
91 cm. x 21 cm. and 90.8 cm. x 21.6 cm.
Footnotes
Literature:
D.H.L.Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, pl. 149 for an illustration of this trade label








