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A Fine 28-Bore Single-Trigger D.B. Flintlock Pistol
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A Fine 28-Bore Single-Trigger D.B. Flintlock Pistol

BY JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON, NO. 181, CIRCA 1793

细节
A Fine 28-Bore Single-Trigger D.B. Flintlock Pistol
By Joseph Manton, London, No. 181, circa 1793
With polygroove rifled browned twist barrels with silver fore-sight, long case-hardened recessed patent breeches each with gold line, gold-lined countersunk touch-hole, and crowned gold-lined maker's stamp, case-hardened tang finely engraved with trophies of arms and with integral back-sight, signed case-hardened locks each with moulded border, safety-catch, roller, blued steel-spring, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, unchequered finely figured walnut half-stock (small chip from fore-end), finely engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, original horn-tipped ramrod, and much original finish, London proof marks
15in. (38.1cm.)
出版
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, pp. 19-20, 225, plates 70-73
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, p. 80, plates 81 a-d
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

This is one of the earliest firearms by Joseph Manton, probably manufactured in the second year of production
The single trigger mechanism is of ingenious design, and different from that of his brother, John, who held a patent for it. In the words of Keith Neal 'In Joe Manton's single trigger he employed a spring loaded rocker which worked at right angles to the trigger arm, and when the right barrel had been fired, flipped across to engage the left. If both cocks were on half-cock, it would fire whichever one was cocked first, providing the other remained at half-cock, but if both locks were full-cocked, it fired the right and then the left' (The Mantons, p. 19)