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A 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting GunBy John Manton, London, Circa 1808
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,275 inc. premium
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A 14-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By John Manton, London, Circa 1808
By John Manton, London, Circa 1808
With sighted two-stage Tuscan barrel struck with crowned mark of Cristiano Leoni of Pistoia (Neue Støckel 7774) at the breech (old vice marks on both sides), patent breech with rectangular gold-lined maker's stamp, gold line and platinum-lined touch-hole, border engraved tang decorated with a trophy and foliage, signed border engraved flat lock with rainproof pan and roller, the tail of the lock decorated with a gamebird in a landscape, border engraved 'French' cock with a part trophy and foliage, figured half-stock (some wear and old bruising, fore-end with two old splits) with cheek-piece, chequered grip and dark horn fore-end cap, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate with faint traces of decoration on the heel tang, trigger-guard with a landscape scene on the bow, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and later brass-tipped ramrod (metal parts pitted and worn overall)
77.5 cm. barrel
77.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Previously unrecorded. For the maker's stamp and for an almost identical lock see D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, pls. 31 and 54








