Product Details
JOHN MANTON & SON, LONDON
A RARE CASED 14-BORE TUBELOCK DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, serial no. 7535,
for 1820 with later conversion from flintlock, 27in. twist barrels of near ball weight with mostly illegible 6 Dover Street signature to the top-rib, the underside bearing a Theo. Murcott barrel maker's stamp, patent breech-blocks with platinum lines and vents, fully engraved top-tang, flat bevel-edged locks with stepped tails and engraved with scrolls and trophies and signed 'JOHN MANTON & SON PATENT', the tube clamps dove-tailed into the original pan mounts, engraved slab-sided hammers with squared noses and permanent blades (one blade replaced in antiquity), walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, engraved iron furniture (detail rubbed) and original mahogany ramrod, together with its maker's mahogany storage case lined and compartmented in green baize, original parchment trade-label and a small number of added accessories
Provenance: This shotgun is described on page 64 of Neal & Back's publication 'The Manton Supplement'. It notes that the label in the case is the one illustrated in Plate 130 of the same author's work 'The Mantons, Gun Makers'
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Estimate £1,800-2,200