An Untouched Pair of Duelling Pistols by Manton
An Untouched Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols by Joseph Manton, London, No. 5808 For 1812. With heavy octagonal barrels each with blade fore-sight, recessed patent breeches each with rectangular platinum-lined maker’s stamp, platinum line and platinum touch-hole, border engraved tangs each with large back-sight and finely decorated with scrolling foliage, signed border engraved flat detented locks each decorated with a starburst behind the rainproof pan and with a martial trophy on the tail, engraved safety catches, foliate engraved cocks, the steels engraved ‘Joseph Manton Patent’ and numbered respectively ‘4908’ and ‘4909’ and each with roller bearing on a ramp on the steel spring, figured half-stocks (some old bruising) dark horn fore-end cap and chequered rounded butt, border engraved steel mounts (some finish showing underneath the muck) decorated with decorated with martial trophies and comprising butt-caps and serial numbered trigger-guards, trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, turned rear ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, original horn-tipped ramrods.
