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Lot 282

A Rare Cased 16-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun With Two Pairs Of Barrels
By John Manton, London, Nos. 5903 And 5904 For 1812

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,937.50 inc. premium

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A Rare Cased 16-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun With Two Pairs Of Barrels
By John Manton, London, Nos. 5903 And 5904 For 1812

With rebrowned twist barrels (ribs and lug of 5904 loose) each with gold fore-sight, recessed patent breeches with rectangular gold-lined maker's stamps, gold lines and platinum-lined touch-holes, border engraved tang decorated with a martial trophy, basket of foliage and a starburst in the sighting groove, signed border engraved flat locks serial numbered '5903', each decorated with a hare at the square tail and with engraved 'French' cock, rainproof pan (some pitting) and large roller, highly figured half-stock (some old bruising) with cheek-piece and chequered grip, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate stamped with Irish registration mark 'CW-1009' for Co. Carlow and decorated on the heel tang with two pointers in a landscape, scroll trigger-guard serial numbered '5903' in a starburst on the scroll and decorated with a sporting trophy on the border engraved bow, trigger-plate with large pineapple finial, rear ramrod-pipe en suite, gold escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, the former engraved with owner's initials, and original brass-mounted ramrods (steel parts with light rust patination): in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including a pair of original spare steels, later brass-mounted powder-flask embossed with deer surmounted by a hound on each side, leather shot-belt, turnscrew (handle bruised), red leather flint wallet, shot dispensers and patch-cutter, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label for circa 1798 to 1815, the exterior (some minor damage, bone keyhole escutcheon incomplete) with flush fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks
79.5 cm. and 77 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, 1966, p. 91
D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, p. 41

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