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Lot 313

A Very Fine And Rare 20-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By John Manton, London, No. 2635 For 1796

22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £13,200 inc. premium

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A Very Fine And Rare 20-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By John Manton, London, No. 2635 For 1796

With browned twist barrels signed in gold along the grooved rib towards the breech, gold fore-sight, case-hardened breeches engraved with a starburst between and each with a band of engraved gold and a line of gold stringing, gold-lined touch-holes, case-hardened border engraved tang decorated with a starburst in the groove and with foliage on the tail, signed case-hardened flat bevelled locks each with safety-catch disguised as a screw-head on the stepped tail, blued steel-spring with roller and gold-lined pan, the internal working parts retaining nearly all their original blued and burnished finish, highly figured half-stock with finely chequered grip, border engraved blued iron mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with a martial trophy and foliage on the heel, and with a musical trophy and foliage on the bow of the trigger-guard, border engraved trigger-plate with pineapple finial, rear ramrod-pipe engraved with foliage and with foliate finial, silver escutcheon engraved with the Russell crest and ducal coronet, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, iron sling mounts, original brass-mounted ramrod, and in fine condition retaining much of its original finish, London proof marks
85 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, probably the pair to gun no. 2636 formerly in the Clay P. Bedford Collection (no. 1327), sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour including the Walker Collection of Antique Firearms & Accessories, 23 October 1997, lot 360

Literature:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Early Firearms of Great Britain and Ireland from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford, 1971, p. 95, no. 91
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, The Manton Supplement, 1978, p. 38
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, p. 23

For a cased 15-bore d.b. flintlock sporting rifle, no. 2633 see Bonhams, Knightsbridge, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 10 November 2005, lot 31

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