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Lot 447*

A Very Rare Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Thomas Manton, London, Nos. 68 and 69, Circa 1815

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £8,750 inc. premium

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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

With rebrowned heavy octagonal sighted barrels, contracted patent breeches each with rectangular platinum-lined maker's stamp, platinum lines and recessed platinum-lined touch-hole, a large foliate engraved breech-screw on the left, tangs each with prominent back-sight and engraved with martial trophies and foliage, border engraved flat detented locks each signed in full, decorated with a musical trophy on the tail and with a starburst behind the rainproof pan, engraved safety-catches and cocks (one top jaw and screw old replacements), and border engraved steels each bearing on a ramp on the steel-spring, engraved 'Thos. Manton Patent' and formed with a lip fitting over a corresponding lip around the touch-hole, the internal working parts with some original burnished finish, figured half-stocks serial numbered on the inside of each fore-end (one with minor split on one side), chequered rounded butts, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-caps each engraved with a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, trigger-guards en suite with the tangs, trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, and horn-tipped wooden ramrods (some wear and light pitting overall): in earlier mahogany case (compartments missing) now lined in green velvet, the lid (damaged, one edge missing) with folding brass carrying handle of Chippendale form
23 cm. barrels

Footnotes

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

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