BY JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON, NO. 5318 FOR 1811

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A Fine Cased Pair Of 20-Bore D.B. Flintlock Carriage Pistols
By Joseph Manton, London, No. 5318 for 1811
With rebrowned twist barrels (some minor surface pitting), the right barrels polygroove rifled, case-hardened recessed patent breeches each with platinum line, and platinum-lined stamp and touch-hole, silver fore-sights, finely engraved grooved case-hardened tangs each incorporating the back-sight, signed border engraved case-hardened bevelled detented locks each with safety-catch, roller, rainproof pan, and blued steel-spring, signed patent steels numbered respectively '4384' to '4387', chequered butts each cut for a shoulder-stock, finely engraved blued iron mounts including serial numbered trigger-guards, blued trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, silver escutcheons, original horn-tipped ramrods, and much original finish: in lined and fitted brass-bound mahogany case with accessories including four-way flask recovered in red leather, the lid with trade label, flush-fitting carrying handle, and circular escutcheon
14¾in. (37.5cm.)

Provenance

Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau, 5th Earl Cowper (1778-1837), Panshanger Park, Hertfordshire

Literature

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, p. 244
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, p. 98

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

The 5th Earl Cowper succeeded his brother, the 4th Earl in 1799. In 1809 he married Emily Mary Lamb, daughter of the 1st Viscount Melbourne, who survived him and subsequently married the 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), the famous politician

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