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Lot 324

A Fine Cased 18-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
By John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 11279 For 1838

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£4,500 - £5,000

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A Fine Cased 18-Bore Percussion Sporting Gun
By John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 11279 For 1838

With browned twist octagonal sighted barrel (minor areas of pitting) signed in full in script along the top flat at the breech and rifled with twelve grooves, folding leaf back-sight retaining some original blueing, foliate engraved case-hardened breech with pierced engraved platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tang decorated with a profile stag's head, border engraved case-hardened flat detented lock with vertical projection, signed in script on the tail, and engraved with foliate scrollwork and a prone stag in a landscape, blued safety-catch, and foliate engraved dolphin hammer, figured half-stock with chequered grip, butt with raised cheek-piece, blued steel mounts engraved en suite with the lock on the heel tang of the butt-plate (some loss of blueing), and with two prone stags on the bow of the D-shaped serial numbered trigger-guard, trigger-plate with engraved pineapple finial, silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, the former engraved with owner's crests, trigger and set trigger, horn fore-end cap, sling mounts, original brass-mounted ramrod, and most of its original finish: in contemporary relined and refitted mahogany case with accessories including G. & J.W. Hawksley white-metal mounted powder-flask covered in black leather with shield-shaped white-metal escutcheon engraved with owner's crest, bullet mould and patch-cutter, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label (damaged), the exterior with flush-fitting circular brass carrying handle centred on two brass escutcheons, London proof marks
79 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance:
Formerly the property of Viscount Allendale

Literature:
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, The Manton Supplement, 1978, p. 84
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, p. 64

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