BY JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON, NO. 6478 FOR 1814

Details

A 20-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By Joseph Manton, London, No. 6478 for 1814
With rebrowned twist barrels indistinctly inscribed on the broad elevated rib 'Joseph Manton's New Improvements by His Majesty's Patent', and with silver fore-sight, recessed patent breeches each with water-drain and platinum-lined touch-hole, finely engraved tang, signed engraved flat bevelled locks each with roller, stepped tail, rainproof pan (corroded) and platinum-lined gravitating stop (steels refaced, lock retaining screw and left cock associated), figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising, fore-stock chipped), chequered grip, engraved iron mounts, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon, and brass-mounted ramrod (some wear throughout, iron parts with surface pitting)
29¾in. (75.6cm.) barrels

Provenance

The Mackintosh of Mackintosh

Literature

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, p. 257, plates 92, 93
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, p. 107, plates 93a, b

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The original owner was probably Sir Aeneas Mackintosh (d. 1820), 1st and last Baronet, and 23rd Chief of Mackintosh, who fought in the American War of Independence, returning to Scotland in 1783. In 1785 he married Margaret, daughter of Sir Ludovick Grant of Dalvay, but he died without issue, so the baronetcy awarded him by King George III became extinct. He built his family home, Moy Hall, in 1800

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