A FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL with browned twist octagonal sighted barrel struck with Dublin registration number, long case-hardened recessed patent breech with gold line, gold-lined maker's stamp and touch-hole, engraved case-hardened tang, signed border engraved case-hardened detented lock with roller and semi-rainproof pan, figured walnut full stock, chequered butt cut to receive a shoulder-stock, engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon engraved with a crest, horn-tipped wooden ramrod, blued barrel-bolts, and much of its original finish, by Joseph Manton, London, No. 835 for 1796

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A FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL with browned twist octagonal sighted barrel struck with Dublin registration number, long case-hardened recessed patent breech with gold line, gold-lined maker's stamp and touch-hole, engraved case-hardened tang, signed border engraved case-hardened detented lock with roller and semi-rainproof pan, figured walnut full stock, chequered butt cut to receive a shoulder-stock, engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon engraved with a crest, horn-tipped wooden ramrod, blued barrel-bolts, and much of its original finish, by Joseph Manton, London, No. 835 for 1796
12¾in.
Provenance
W. Keith Neal
Literature
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, The Mantons, p. 227
Wilfrid Ward, 'Duels & Duelling', p. 448
'British Pistol Duelling and its Weapons', p. 2

Lot Essay

The crest on the escutcheon is that of Sir Ronald Ross

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