Product Details
C. MOORE, LONDON
A 13-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, THE BARRELS SIGNED 'JOHN MANTON', serial no. 7810,
the barrels 1821, the locks earlier and both converted from flint, with 32in. barrels, the top-rib signed in script 'JOHN MANTON & SON DOVER STREET' (faint), moulded breech-blocks with engraved platinum plugs, engraved top-tang, flat, curved and bevel-edged locks signed 'C. MOORE LONDON' and engraved with feathered serpents, hammers almost certainly from another, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, engraved iron furniture and period ramrod
Literature: Sporting Gun Magazine published a history of Joseph Manton written by Holts antique firearms expert Robert Morgan CLICK HERE to access the article
Estimate £400-600