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JOHN MANTON & SON, LONDON
A FINE CASED 20-BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, serial no. 7959,
for 1821, with browned laminated 29 3/4in. barrels, the top-rib signed 'JOHN MANTON & SON, DOVER STREET', white-metal bead fore-sight, flambé needles engraved to the rib-end, squared patent breech-block (traces of colour) with platinum line and vents, fully engraved top-tang incorporating a trophy of globe, shield and drum, border engraved bevel-edged bar-action locks with stepped and clipped tails, numbered on the top-edge and signed in script 'JOHN MANTON & SON, PATENT', musical trophies engraved to the tails, border and scroll engraved 'C' shaped cocks with sunbursts to the top-jaws, patent 'V' shaped rain-proof pans with inlet white-metal dividers, large rollers to the frizzen-springs, the front of both frizzens signed 'JNO MANTON & SON, PATENT' (slight traces of colour throughout), figured walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, iron heel-plate engraved with acanthus scrolls around the screws and scrolls and a further trophy to the top-spur (all rubbed), border and trophy engraved trigger-guard tang and bow, engraved pineapple finial, en-suite ramrod throat, plain thimbles and original brass mounted mahogany ramrod, together with its maker's mahogany storage case with separate compartments for the locks, flush-fitting circular ring-handle to outside of lid, replacement original small parchment John Manton label to inside of lid, the interior compartmented and lined in green baize (possibly renewed in antiquity) and containing a powder flask signed Dixon, a turn-screw of unusual form, wad punch, powder measure and scoop and a leather shot bandolier
Provenance: This gun appears to be unrecorded in any of the proprietary Manton publications
Other Notes: From the Sesto Rocchiccioli collection
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Estimate £4,000-6,000