Product Details
JOHN MANTON, LONDON
A GOOD CASED PAIR OF 22-BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS, serial numbered 3256,
for 1799, with octagonal 10in. barrels signed in gold lettering 'MANTON, LONDON' on the top-flats, applied fore-sights, dove-tailed notch rear-sights to the top of the colour hardened breech blocks, the blocks with twin gold bands and gold lined touch-holes, engraved top-tangs, flat colour-hardened bevel edged locks with stepped and pointed tails, swan-necked cocks, rainproof pans and roller frizzen-springs, walnut full-stocks with chequered bag-shaped grips (some old hairline cracks and working patched repairs), iron furniture with pineapple finials to the trigger guard plates and horn-tipped mahogany ramrods, together with their maker's mahogany case, partially relined and compartmented in green baize and including a three-way flask, scissors mould, loading rod and bone-handled breech-brush
Provenance: These pistols appear unrecorded in any of the proprietary Manton publications
Other Notes: From the Sesto Rocchiccioli collection
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Estimate £8,000-12,000