Lot 89
89
A PAIR FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with heavy browned twist octagonal sighted barrels scratch rifled and signed in full, and each with engraved case-hardened recessed patent breech with two platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, engraved case-hardened tangs, signed and engraved case-hardened detented locks each with roller, 'French' cock (one jaw screw replaced), V-shaped rainproof pan, blued safety-catch and patent steel, maple half-stocks, blued iron mounts including finely engraved numbered trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, silver escutcheons engraved with crest and coronet, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, original brass-tipped ramrods, and much original finish: in original lined and fitted case (corner compartment lids missing) with accessories including three-way flask covered in red leather, the lid (repaired) with trade label, flush-fitting carrying handle and circular escutcheon engraved with the same crest and coronet as the pistols, by John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 6915 for 1819

Details
A PAIR FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with heavy browned twist octagonal sighted barrels scratch rifled and signed in full, and each with engraved case-hardened recessed patent breech with two platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, engraved case-hardened tangs, signed and engraved case-hardened detented locks each with roller, 'French' cock (one jaw screw replaced), V-shaped rainproof pan, blued safety-catch and patent steel, maple half-stocks, blued iron mounts including finely engraved numbered trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, silver escutcheons engraved with crest and coronet, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, original brass-tipped ramrods, and much original finish: in original lined and fitted case (corner compartment lids missing) with accessories including three-way flask covered in red leather, the lid (repaired) with trade label, flush-fitting carrying handle and circular escutcheon engraved with the same crest and coronet as the pistols, by John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 6915 for 1819
14 7/8in.
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, 20 July 1983, lot 195
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons, p.96
Wilfrid Ward, 'Weapons of Honour', p. 966

Lot Essay

The crest is that of Law, for Edward Baron Ellenborough who suceeded to the title on 13 December 1818. He was M.P. for St. Michael's 1813-18; Lord Privy Seal 1828; President of the Board of Control 1828-30, 1834-5, 1841 and 1858; Govenor-General of India 1841-4, and First Lord of the Admiralty 1846. He was created Earl of Ellenborough on 22 October 1844

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