Product Details
JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON
A FINE CASED PAIR OF .600 FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED PISTOLS, serial no's. 3017,
for 1803, with browned 9in. barrels, the breech-blocks inlet with gold rectangular poincons marked in raised letters 'JOSEPH MANTON LONDON' and with crowns, the breech blocks also with gold lines and touch-holes, blued standing notch rear-sights, fully engraved top-tang with sunken sighting grooves, flat, curved, border engraved bevel-edged locks with stepped tails and signed below the rainproof pans 'JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON', engraved swan-necked cocks with rear-mounted sliding safes, border engraved roller-frizzens marked 'JOSEPH MANTON PATENT' and numbered variously at the tips '505', '506', '507' & '508', walnut half-stocks with coarse flat-chequered bag-shaped butts, each with a border engraved iron socket to rear for a detachable shoulder-stock (absent), oval silver escutcheons engraved with a coronet, engraved domed iron pommel-caps, engraved martial trophies to the trigger guard bows and horn-tipped mahogany ramrods, both pistols with expert repairs and some renovations and together with their original walnut case lined and compartmented in green baize, parchment Manton label inside lid and containing a period red Morocco leather covered three-way flask, a scissors ball-mould, wood loading rod and dismountable loading mallet
Provenance: Previously sold Christies 'The Wilfrid Ward Collection of Antique Firearms, 27th October 1993, Lot 86
Literature: W. Keith Neal and D.H. Back, The Mantons, p.235 (one pistol only) and The Manton Supplement, p. 223 which tells of the re-uniting of the second pistol and the case
Other Notes: The pistols were originally purchased by Dr Martin Davy (1763-1839) of Heacham, Norfolk, sometime Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
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Estimate £15,000-20,000