BY JOHN MANTON & SON, DOVER STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1825

Details

A Fine Pair Of 54-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, circa 1825
With turn-off barrels numbered respecively '1' and '1*', and each with a band of engraved chevron ornament at the rear and a sprung hinged lever beneath, signed rounded actions each finely engraved with swags and martial trophies, engraved cocks, raised pans, rollers, engraved thumbpiece safety-catches also locking the steels, blued folding triggers and steel-springs, finely chequered figured walnut butts, silver escutcheons, and flat silver pommels, retaining some original finish, Birmingham proof marks
6½ (16.5cm.) (2)

Provenance

The Trustees of the Ashburnham Settled Estates and the Executors of Lady Catherine Ashburnham, decd. (Ashburnham Place), Sotheby & Co., London, 12 June 1953, lot 184 (£14 to Neal)

Literature

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, p. 102, plate 25
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, p. 51, plate 19

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar pocket pistol with gold inlay (now united with its mate in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove - inv. no. '39-65 cas), sold from the Wilfrid Ward Collection in these Rooms 27 October 1993, lot 67 (£3,220 including premium)

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