Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2014 : Sale A0314 Lot 942
JOHN MANTON & SON, LONDON A CASED 16-BORE PINFIRE DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, serial no. 10983,

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JOHN MANTON & SON, LONDON
A CASED 16-BORE PINFIRE DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, serial no. 10983,
for 1840-44 and probably converted from cap-lock, with re-browned 28 3/4in. twist barrels, the top-rib signed 'JOHN MANTON & SONS DOVER STREET LONDON', scroll engraved top-tang, border and floral scroll engraved locks, the action-body signed 'JNO MANTON SON & COE', walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, iron heel-plate with engraved long top-spur, trigger-guard tang engraved with game birds, scroll engraved flared action-body, fully chequered walnut splinter fore-end, TOGETHER WITH a period mahogany storage case, lined in green baize with a John Manton & Son parchment trade-label to the inside of lid and containing a pinfire loading tool together with other sundry loading items

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Estimate £1,500-2,000