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A Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Flintlock Duelling PistolsBy John Manton, London, No. 5511 For 1810
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £25,000 inc. premium
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A Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By John Manton, London, No. 5511 For 1810
By John Manton, London, No. 5511 For 1810
With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted polygroove rifled barrels each with silver fore-sight and signed in full along the top flat at the breech, recessed patent breeches each with back-sight, gold line and platinum-lined touch-hole, border engraved tangs each decorated with a trophy and foliage, signed border engraved detented locks (some internal pitting and rust patination) each decorated with foliage behind the blued safety-catch, and with engraved 'French' cock (one repaired), rainproof pan and blued steel-spring with roller, darkened maple half-stocks with chequered rounded butts, border engraved blued steel trigger-guards (tangs with some loss of finish) each with serial number in an oval centred on a martial trophy and foliage on the bow, trigger-plates each with engraved pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, dark horn fore-end caps (one replaced), original brass-tipped ramrods, and some original blueing (steel parts with some scattered pitting in places): in original lined and fitted case with accessories including reproduction three-way powder-flask covered in red leather, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label for circa 1798-1815, the exterior with circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a vacant circular escutcheon
23.8 cm. barrels
23.8 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Previously unrecorded
Cf. a similar pair of pistols by the same maker (no. 4456) sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour, 23 April 2008, lot 467








