Product Details
JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON
AN EXTREMELY FINE 24-BORE TUBELOCK PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE, serial no. 6410,
for 1814 and converted by the makers from flint, with browned 32in. octagonal barrel rifled in twelve grooves, blued dove-tailed fore-sight, rear-sight of one standing and two folding leaves on a dove-tailed finialed foot, colour hardened breech-block with platinum line and inlet poincon signed 'JOSEPH MANTON, PATENT' together with a crown, platinum lined touch hole, colour hardened borderline and feathered scroll engraved lock signed 'JOSEPH MANTON PATENT' below the tube-clamp roller tipped flat spring, slab-sided colour hardened hammer engraved en-suite, figured walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist and with raised moulded cheek-piece, blued iron furniture including spurred heel-plate (spur lifting) and trigger guard bow with raised scrolled lower tang, twin barrel keys with white metal escutcheons, brass-mounted ebony ramrod and eyelets for sling, retaining the majority of its period refinish from the time of conversion
Provenance: This rifle is mentioned on page 256 of Neal & Back's publication 'The Mantons: Gunmakers' with the same details and note as being in the collection of J.T. Amber, U.S.A
Other Notes: From the Sesto Rocchiccioli collection
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Estimate £3,000-5,000