A Rare Cased Pair Of 38-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols

By John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 6019 For 1813

With rebrowned twist octagonal polygroove rifled barrels each with silver fore-sight and engraved with maker's address along the top flat, case-hardened recessed patent breeches each with platinum line, touch-hole and rectangular platinum-lined maker's stamp, border engraved tangs each finely decorated with a martial trophy and foliage, large blued back-sights, signed border engraved case-hardened flat detented locks decorated with foliage on the tail and each with blued safety-catch, engraved 'French' cock (both with old repair at the neck), rainproof pan, border engraved steel, and roller on a blued spring, lightly figured maple half-stock (one with minor old chip and slender split in the front of the lock) with chequered rounded butts, reblued steel mounts including spur trigger-guards each decorated with a martial trophy incorporating the serial number on the border engraved bow, trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, dark horn fore-end caps, and original brass-tipped ramrods (some areas of light rust patination): in original lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask retaining much of its original lacquered finish, the interior of the lid (minor moth damage) with maker's trade label for circa 1815-1820, the exterior with circular vacant brass escutcheon centred on a folding brass carrying handle
23.8 cm. barrels