Product Details
JOHN MANTON & SON, LONDON
A CASED 16-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN WITH GILDED DECORATION, serial no. 10883,
for 1834, with 30 1/2in. twist barrels, the raised top rib signed in gilt script 'JOHN MANTON & SON LONDON' and flanked by gilt arabesques, gilded acanthus scrolls to the breech-ends of both barrels and the top-rib, the gilding continuing around the engraved platinum vented plugs, further gilded border and acanthus scroll-work to the top-tang on a blued ground, the decoration repeated on the bar-action locks, each lock signed 'JOHN MANTON & SON, LONDON on gilt banners, gilded decoration to the hammer breasts and noses, birdseye maple unchequered half-stock (extensively inlet repaired at wrist and behind locks, well executed), plain iron furniture except yellow gold rectangular escutcheon engraved with a coronet at wrist and oval yellow gold escutcheons for the barrel key, working replacement ramrod, in a period mahogany storage case with brass corners, lined and compartmented in coarse green baize, original John Manton & Son parchment trade label inside lid, together with a Barlow patent flask
Provenance: The details of this shotgun can be found in Neal & Back's book 'The Manton Supplement', page 81. It is incorrectly described as a 14-bore
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Estimate £2,000-3,000