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A Rare 38-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket PistolRetailed By Joseph Manton, London, No. 5857 For 1812
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £828.75 inc. premium
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Retailed By Joseph Manton, London, No. 5857 For 1812
Retailed By Joseph Manton, London, No. 5857 For 1812
With turn-off barrel engraved with a band of foliage and numbered '2' at the barrel lug and at the breech, the latter with serial number, border engraved action signed on an oval against a trophy on the left, and engraved 'London' on a scroll against a differing trophy on the right, engraved thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel over the rectangular pan, ring-neck cock engraved with a dolphin on each side, folding trigger within a garland, and figured flat-sided butt (some old bruising)
6 cm. barrel
6 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, 1966, p. 249
D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, p. 102. The footnote reads 'It may only have been sold and not made by Manton'
The engraving is by the same unidentified hand that decorated flintlock pocket pistols of the same period by Durs Egg and other makers








