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拍品 224
A Fine 30-Bore D.B. Flintlock Pistol
BY JOHN MANTON, LONDON, CIRCA 1785
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GBP 5,875
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A Fine 30-Bore D.B. Flintlock Pistol
By John Manton, London, circa 1785
With browned twist barrels signed 'Manton London' on the top rib and without under-rib, each breech with broad gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, silver fore-sight, finely engraved grooved case-hardened tang, signed locks each with moulded border, roller, blued steel-spring, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, finely figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising), flat-sided chequered butt, finely engraved iron mounts, trigger-guard with large pineapple finial, bulbous ramrod tail-pipe, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's monogram 'GL', short front trigger, original horn-tipped ramrod, and some original finish, London proof marks
11½in. (29.2cm.)
By John Manton, London, circa 1785
With browned twist barrels signed 'Manton London' on the top rib and without under-rib, each breech with broad gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, silver fore-sight, finely engraved grooved case-hardened tang, signed locks each with moulded border, roller, blued steel-spring, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, finely figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising), flat-sided chequered butt, finely engraved iron mounts, trigger-guard with large pineapple finial, bulbous ramrod tail-pipe, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's monogram 'GL', short front trigger, original horn-tipped ramrod, and some original finish, London proof marks
11½in. (29.2cm.)
A Fine 30-Bore D.B. Flintlock Pistol
By John Manton, London, circa 1785
With browned twist barrels signed 'Manton London' on the top rib and without under-rib, each breech with broad gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, silver fore-sight, finely engraved grooved case-hardened tang, signed locks each with moulded border, roller, blued steel-spring, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, finely figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising), flat-sided chequered butt, finely engraved iron mounts, trigger-guard with large pineapple finial, bulbous ramrod tail-pipe, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's monogram 'GL', short front trigger, original horn-tipped ramrod, and some original finish, London proof marks
11½in. (29.2cm.)
By John Manton, London, circa 1785
With browned twist barrels signed 'Manton London' on the top rib and without under-rib, each breech with broad gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, silver fore-sight, finely engraved grooved case-hardened tang, signed locks each with moulded border, roller, blued steel-spring, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, finely figured walnut half-stock (minor bruising), flat-sided chequered butt, finely engraved iron mounts, trigger-guard with large pineapple finial, bulbous ramrod tail-pipe, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's monogram 'GL', short front trigger, original horn-tipped ramrod, and some original finish, London proof marks
11½in. (29.2cm.)
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, pp. 8-9, 61, plate 15 and dust-jacket
Idem, The Manton Supplement, dust-jacket
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, p. 14, plate 5
Idem, The Manton Supplement, dust-jacket
D.H.L. Back, The Mantons 1782-1878, p. 14, plate 5
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.