Lot 106
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A Fine Cased 13-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
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A Fine Cased 13-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun

BY JOHN MANTON & SON, DOVER STREET, LONDON, NO. 6432, CIRCA 1816

Details
A Fine Cased 13-Bore Flintlock Sporting Gun
By John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 6432, circa 1816
With rebrowned twist barrel (small areas of light surface pitting) and silver fore-sight, the breech section octagonal changing to sixteen-sided and inscribed 'Dover Street London' in Gothic script, case-hardened recessed sloping patent breech with crowned platinum-lined maker's stamp and platinum-lined touch-hole, scroll engraved tang, signed engraved case-hardened flat serial numbered lock with roller, blued steel-spring, V-shaped rainproof pan with platinum bar, and signed patent steel (refaced), figured walnut half-stock (minor bruises), chequered grip, finely engraved blued iron mounts including serial numbered trigger-guard, blued trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, original brass-mounted ramrod, and some original finish: in lined and fitted mahogany case with numerous accessories including four etched steel shot chargers, the lid (cracked) with trade label for circa 1815-1820, the exterior with flush-fitting carrying handle and circular escutcheon, London proof marks
32in. (81.2cm) barrel
Provenance
Sir Robert Shafto Adair (1786-1869), 1st Bt.
Purchased at Flixton Hall, Suffolk, from Major-General Sir Alan Shafto Adair, 6th Bt., in the late 1940s
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, p. 94, plates 54 and 141
Idem, British Gunmakers, Their Trade Cards Cases and Equipment 1760-1860, plate 520 (shot chargers only)
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, p. 44, plates 37 and 55
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The original owner was the son of Sir William Adair of Ballymena (Co. Antrim), Flixton Hall, and Cole House (Devon), and was created a baronet in 1838. Another cased John Manton gun with the same provenance was sold from the W. Keith Neal Collection in these Rooms, 8 November 1995, lot 154 (£10,350 including premium)
The Adair family is also known in arms collecting circles for the group of Long Land Pattern muskets and brass-hilted hangers of the Royal Welch Fusiliers also acquired by Keith Neal from Flixton Hall, probably at the same time as the present gun. Most of the group is now on display in the Governor's Palace, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

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