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Lot 240

A Cased Pair Of Royal 20-Bore Percussion D.B. Sporting Guns
By John Manton and Son, Dover Street, London, Nos. 9256/7 For 1825

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17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Cased Pair Of Royal 20-Bore Percussion D.B. Sporting Guns
By John Manton and Son, Dover Street, London, Nos. 9256/7 For 1825

Rebuilt from flintlock, with re-browned twist sighted barrels, each signed in full in script along the damascus twist rib, case-hardened breeches each with pierced platinum plug engraved with a flower-head and decorated with symmetrical foliage between, case-hardened tangs en suite, border engraved serial numbered flat locks each with vertical sear, signed 'John Manton & Son Patent', and decorated with foliage terminating in two serpents, foliate engraved hammers, figured half-stocks each with cheek-piece and chequered grip, steel mounts retaining some original blueing and comprising butt-plates each decorated with symmetrical foliage on the border engraved tang, trigger-guards en suite and with serial numbered scrolled tangs, the bows inhabited by two birds, blued trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, rear ramrod-pipes en suite, silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, the former each engraved with crowned initials 'PL', and brass-mounted ramrods: in lined and fitted brass-mounted mahogany case originally made for the pair of flintlock guns, no. 8082, and with accessories including W. Bartram powder-flask with pigskin-covered bag-shaped body, and retaining virtually all its lacquered finish, a T-shaped combination tool with threaded brass caps for spare percussion nipples, in its leather wallet, Sykes circular white-metal percussion cap dispenser, an unopened tin of Eley's Superior Sporting percussion caps, in its original wrapper with maker's label and wax seal, case-hardened and burnished steel mainspring clamp, and other items including cleaning rods, the interior of the lid (minor moth damage) with maker's trade label for circa 1815-20, the exterior with flush-fitting circular brass carrying handle centred on a circular escutcheon engraved with the same crowned initials as the guns, London proof marks
79 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later King Leopold I of the Belgians
W. Keith Neal Collection, C208
Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 8 November 1995, lot 36

Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons Supplement, 1978, p. 70
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, p. 52

Saleroom notices

Please note that the capper included in this lot has gone missing during the viewing and is therefore not included

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