Product Details
JOHN MANTON & SON, LONDON
A CASED PAIR OF 36-BORE PERCUSSION RIFLED TARGET or OFFICER'S PISTOLS, serial numbered 6599,
for 1818 and converted from flint by the maker, with browned laminated octagonal 9 3/4in. rifled barrels signed in script 'JOHN MANTON & SON DOVER STREET LONDON', scroll engraved colour hardened breech-blocks with moulded nipple-wells and engraved platinum plugs, dove-tailed bead fore-sights, prominent standing notch rear-sights to the front of the engraved top-tangs, borderline and scroll engraved colour hardened locks with extensions above moulding to the sides of the standing breech and signed 'JOHN MANTON & SON PATENT', slab-sided hammers with dolphin engraved noses, bolted safes behind the hammers, walnut half-stocks with chequered bag-shaped grips, blued and engraved iron furniture including domed butt-caps, plain triggers, white metal clipped corner rectangular vacant escutcheons to wrists, escutcheoned barrel keys, horn fore-end tips and brass-tipped mahogany ramrods, strong traces of finish remaining and in their maker's mahogany case lined and compartmented in green baize, good No.6 Dover Street trade label inside lid and complete with a three-way flask, 42-bore scissors ball mould, brass mounted ebony loading rod, dismountable loading mallet, powder measure and oil-bottle, flush ring handle to the outside of lid
Other Notes: From the Sesto Rocchiccioli collection
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Estimate £4,000-6,000