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A Fine Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Percussion Duelling PistolsBy John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 9523 For 1824
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By John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 9523 For 1824
By John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 9523 For 1824
23.5 cm. barrel
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Provenance:
Major 'Dick' Cooper, wealthy bon viveur, accomplished big game hunter and fisherman, was a friend of Ernest Hemingway and Winston Guest. He hunted with Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke in the Congo (now Zaire) - see von Blixen's African Hunter (translated from Swedish in 1938), chapters VIII and IX, pp. 119-143 - and inherited von Blixen's rifles. Keith Neal met Cooper at the British Sporting Exhibition at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington in 1938, and helped him to put together a substantial collection of antique firearms. Cooper was godfather to Keith Neal's daughter, Diana. Having settled in the United States after World War II, he kept on his farm in Africa (near Lake Manyara, Tanzania), and is said to have died in 1952 by drowning in a Cape buffalo hollow. Cooper enjoyed the unusual distinction of having shot down a low-flying German aircraft from the trenches in France in 1917 with his .450 Holland & Holland rifle
Literature:
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, 1967, p. 105
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, p. 52








