BY JOHN MANTON & SON, DOVER STREET, LONDON, NO. 7673 FOR 1820

Details

A Fine 16-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun
By John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 7673 for 1820
With browned twist barrels, silver fore-sight, elevated rib signed in full, case-hardened recessed sloping patent breeches each with platinum line and platinum-lined touch-hole, case-hardened tang finely engraved with scrolls and foliage on a hatched ground, signed engraved bevelled case-hardened locks each with stepped tail, large roller, blued steel-spring, V-shaped rainproof pan with platinum bar, 'French' cock, and signed patent steel with pierced lip, blackened bird's eye maple half-stock, blued iron mounts engraved with martial trophies, blued trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and coronet, original brass-mounted ramrod, much original finish, and in fine condition throughout, London proof marks
31in. (78.8cm.) barrels

Literature

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, p. 97, plates 41, 42
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, p. 47, plates 39a-b

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

The crest and coronet are those of Beaumont Hotham, second Baron Hotham (1794-1870), who served in the Peninsular War in the Coldstream Guards, being wounded at the Battle of Salamanca. He became a Lieutenant in 1814, saw active service at Waterloo, and was promoted successively to Major General (1851), Lt. General (1858), and General (1865). He served as an M.P. from 1820 to 1868

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