Lot 359
A Very Rare Cased Pair Of 22-Bore Flintlock Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Pistols By John Manton, London, Nos. 4205 And 4206 For 1804
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£10,000 - £15,000
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A Very Rare Cased Pair Of 22-Bore Flintlock Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Pistols
By John Manton, London, Nos. 4205 And 4206 For 1804
By John Manton, London, Nos. 4205 And 4206 For 1804
With rebrowned twist octagonal scratch-rifled barrels, the top barrels each signed in gold along the top flat and with gold fore-sight, gold line at the rear and gold-lined touch-hole, border engraved tangs each decorated with a martial trophy, foliage and with a starburst behind the large back-sight, signed border engraved case-hardened flat locks each decorated with a small martial trophy on the tail, border engraved 'French' cocks, the top jaws numbered respectively with a foliate '1' and '2', semi-rainproof pans, and steels each with roller bearing on a ramp on the blued steel-spring, flattened chequered figured butts, blued steel trigger-guards each serial numbered in an oval against a martial trophy on the border engraved bow, gold escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, horn-tipped ramrods, probably original, and some original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case (two compartments with minor repairs) with accessories including unusual brass-mounted three-way powder-flask with body covered in red leather, turnscrew, double-ended bone pan brush and leather flint wallet, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label (minor damage) for circa 1798-1815, the exterior (some old bruising, old split along the back) with circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular escutcheon engraved with owner's crest
20.7 cm. barrels
20.7 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Provenance
Field Marshal Sir Francis Festing, GCB, KBE, DSO, DL. Almost certainly acquired from his friend and fellow collector W. Keith Neal
Sotheby's London, Military Pictures, Medals, Arms & Militaria, 17 September 1992, lot 260
Literature
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, The Mantons: Gunmakers, 1996, p. 81
D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers: The Mantons 1782-1878, 1993, p.33
The crest is that of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1787-1871) 10th Baronet of Column John, Tory Member of Parliament for Devon. The family had considerable estates at Holnicote and were created Baronets for their support of Charles I
