Product Details
A 20-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN SIGNED MANTON, LONDON, serial no. 5743,
for 1814, with rebrowned 32in. barrels, the breech-blocks signed with rectangular gold poincons 'MANTON, LONDON' together with a crown, gold line at breech, platinum lined touch-holes, engraved top-tang with shallow sighting groove, border engraved locks signed 'MANTON' below the rainproof pans, clipped tails, roller frizzen-springs, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist (repair below right lock), applied leather cheek-piece, trophy engraved iron furniture, the lower tang with scrolled iron raised grip and brass-mounted mahogany ramrod
Provenance: This shotgun is noted in W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back's publication 'The Manton Supplement' as being a 24-bore caplock converted from flint with a gilt signature on the rib and gold poincons on the breeches. It therefore must be considered to be a reconversion. The calibre anomaly may be down to the following number '5744' which apparently is an identical gun, but also listed as a 24-bore
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Estimate £3,000-5,000