Product Details
JOSEPH MANTON & SON, LONDON
A FINE CASED PAIR OF 16-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUNS, serial no. 10627 / 8,
circa 1837, with browned 30in. laminated barrels, each with reinforced breech section extending to within 20 3/4in. from the muzzle, the raised top-ribs signed 'JOSEPH MANTON & SON. PATENT, 6 HOLLES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, LONDON', white metal bead fore-sights, colour-hardened patent breeches with vented platinum plugs and foliage engraved to the rib-end, fully border and scroll engraved colour hardened top-tangs, flat border and scroll engraved colour hardened bar-action locks signed 'JOSEPH MANTON & SON PATENTEES', en-suite hammers, figured walnut half-stocks, chequered wrists with initialled border engraved rectangular white metal escutcheons, blued and engraved iron furniture and brass mounted ebony ramrods, both guns remaining in fine condition with much finish and colour, complete with their makers two-tier mahogany storage case (lid lining renewed but original label retained) and including a good leather covered Hawkesley flask, a shot bandolier, a shot flask, numbered nipple-wallet, cranked nipple key, oil-bottle and cleaning sundries
Provenance: This fine pair of guns represent pieces from the final days of production of the great firm of Joseph Manton. Joseph passed away in 1835, leaving the business to his son and business partner John Augustus Manton. Sadly the firm was plagued with financial difficulties, and John finally sold out to Charles and Henry Egg in December 1838. Neither of these guns appear to be recorded in the proprietary works on the Mantons
Other Notes: From the Sesto Rocchiccioli collection
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Estimate £5,000-8,000