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A Fine Cased 13-Bore Tubelock Sporting Gun
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A Fine Cased 13-Bore Tubelock Sporting Gun

BY JOSEPH MANTON, NO.11 HANOVER SQUARE, LONDON, NO. 8339, CIRCA 1819

細節
A Fine Cased 13-Bore Tubelock Sporting Gun
By Joseph Manton, No.11 Hanover Square, London, No. 8339, circa 1819
With rebrowned twist barrel (minor rust-staining) with silver fore-sight and turned girdle, the breech section octagonal then sixteen-sided, case-hardened recessed patent breech with crowned platinum-lined maker's stamp, single platinum line, and raised platinum-lined touch-hole, engraved tang decorated with scrollwork on a matted ground, case-hardened flat lock signed 'Joseph Manton Patent' and finely engraved with scrollwork and game birds, figured walnut half-stock (minor bruises), chequered grip, finely engraved iron mounts retaining some old reblued finish, silver escutcheon with traces of owner's crest, a boar's head, and initials 'BW', horn fore-end cap, and original brass-mounted ramrod: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including an annular tube-dispenser complete with tubes, and numerous additional tubes in an ivory container and a chamois leather bag, the lid (cracked) with trade label for 1819 and 1820, the exterior with flush-fitting carrying handle and circular escutcheon engraved with the same owner's crest and initials as the gun, London proof marks, the barrel forged by Charles Lancaster
33in. (83.8cm.) barrel
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, p. 267, plates 123 (tube-dispenser only), 143
Idem, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment 1760-1860, plates 409, 532 (tube-dispenser only)
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, p. 116, plates 96, 122 (tube-dispenser only)
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

Joseph Manton's tubelock was patented under Patent No. 4285 on 3 August 1818
A typewritten note in the case records that Keith Neal acquired this gun in an auction in Devonshire. The vendor was 'a very old gentleman, and seeing me with the gun after the sale, he told me that it was one of his "best guns" and that he used to shoot rabbits with it using the old tubes in the case. This was about 1938 and it is interesting to have met a man who used a Joe Manton tubelock gun'