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A Cased Pair Of 25-Bore Flintlock Duelling PistolsBy John Manton, London, No. 2657 For 1796
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,600 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Cased Pair Of 25-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By John Manton, London, No. 2657 For 1796
By John Manton, London, No. 2657 For 1796
Reconverted from percussion, with rebrowned twist sighted barrels each signed in gold along the top flat, breeches each with gold line and incorporating a back-sight, silver-lined touch-holes, border engraved tangs each finely decorated with a martial trophy and foliage, signed border engraved flat bevelled detented locks each with stepped tail, safety-catch also locking the steel, semi-rainproof pan and roller, figured full stocks (fore-ends with minor repairs and splits) with chequered rounded butts apart from a plain strip along each side, blued steel trigger-guards each with large pineapple finial and finely engraved with a martial trophy on the bow, turned ramrod-pipes, silver escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, and horn-tipped ramrods, one probably original: in earlier oak case lined and fitted for the pistols at a later date and with two rods, the interior of the lid (minor damage and repairs) with Joseph Manton trade label of circa 1828, London proof marks
24 cm. barrels
24 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Provenance:
B.R. Lewis, U.S.A.
Literature:
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, 1967, p. 72
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, p. 24








