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A Very Rare Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Flintlock Duelling PistolsBy Thomas Manton, London, Nos. 68 and 69, Circa 1815
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A Very Rare Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Thomas Manton, London, Nos. 68 and 69, Circa 1815
By Thomas Manton, London, Nos. 68 and 69, Circa 1815
23 cm. barrels
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Previously unrecorded
Only two other pairs of flintlock duelling pistols by Thomas Manton are recorded, only one of which survive in their original case and which were sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour and Modern Sporting Guns ..., 29 July 2009, lot 598 (£21,600 including premium)
Thomas Manton, first cousin to Joseph and John, was born in 1758 and is recorded at 35 Marylebone Street between 1810 and 1813; 59 Princes Street between 1814 and 1816; and at 144 Long Acre between 1817 and 1820 before moving to Grantham (the town of his birth), Lincolnshire, where he is recorded between 1820 and 1828. For more information see W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, The Manton Supplement, 1978, pp. 273-274; and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, p. 136, pls. 146-149








