DOUBLE-CASED 14 BORE DOUBLE BARREL PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, BY JOHN MANTON AND SON, LONDON
£1,500
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 5 July 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
signed on the top rib of the browned Damascus barrels JOHN MANTON AND SON/ 6 DOVER STREET/ PICCADILLY LONDON, with gunmaker's view and proof marks and signed locks, with a figured walnut half stock and original ramrod, with accessories including two tin powder flasks, two leather shot flasks, a leather cased nipple wrench, a patch cutter, a bullet mould, a cap dispenser and a cleaning rod, enclosed in a two-tier brass mounted mahogany case with an engraved crest, on a later painted wood stand
Dimensions
barrels 74cm long
Footnote
Note:
John Manton was the most renowned of London gunmakers from the end of the 18th century until his death in 1834 he had no rival.