A FINE PAIR OF SINGLE-TRIGGER D.B. FLINTLOCK CARRIAGE PISTOLS with browned twist barrels, silver fore-sights, case-hardened recessed patent breeches each with gold line, gold-lined maker's stamp, and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved case-hardened tangs, signed border engraved case-hardened bevelled detented locks each with safety-catch, semi-rainproof pan, and a ramp on the steel spring, figured walnut half-stocks, chequered butts, engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, silver escutcheons engraved with initials, original horn-tipped ramrods, and much original finish, by Joseph Manton, London, No. 623 for 1794

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A FINE PAIR OF SINGLE-TRIGGER D.B. FLINTLOCK CARRIAGE PISTOLS with browned twist barrels, silver fore-sights, case-hardened recessed patent breeches each with gold line, gold-lined maker's stamp, and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved case-hardened tangs, signed border engraved case-hardened bevelled detented locks each with safety-catch, semi-rainproof pan, and a ramp on the steel spring, figured walnut half-stocks, chequered butts, engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, silver escutcheons engraved with initials, original horn-tipped ramrods, and much original finish, by Joseph Manton, London, No. 623 for 1794
15¾in. (2)
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons, p. 227

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