4425 GOOD PAIR OF JOSEPH MANTON FULL STOCK FLINTLOCK

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[?]Live Online Auction Starts In 2025 May 11 @ 10:00 (UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT)
Category Firearms & Military
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Start Price 3,000.00 USD
Estimated at 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD
DUELLING OR HOLSTER PISTOLS EX BEDFORD COLLECTION. Cal. 54 (both). S# 305 (both). 10" twist octagon barrels with scratch rifling are unmarked on tops. Gold poincon on tops of breeches are marked "Joseph Manton Patent". Gold lines are at rears. Breeches are inset and gold touch holes are recessed. Breech irons are engraved with stands of arms. Small locks with flat plates are fitted with serpentine cocks, with back sliding safetys, gull wing type gold lined semi-waterproof pans, bridled roller frizzens and feather springs with bulbous finials. Locks are feather border engraved with "JOSEPH MANTON" "LONDON" under pans. Trigger plates have pineapple finials. Trigger guards are engraved with stands of arm. Stocks extend to muzzles in early fashion and have checkered bag grips with steel caps engraved with crossed arrow and club devices. S#'s are not visible with out barrel removal. Silver ovals at tops of grips are engraved with the crown of a viscount over what is reported to be the Hamilton family crest. Stocks attach to barrels with two captive sidebolts through oval silver escutcheons. Hickory ramrods with horn tips mount through beaded pipes and matching thimbles. These guns are listed on page 215 of "The Manton Supplement" as being made in 1791 with a brief description and at the time were owned by C. P. Bedford USA (famous collection and book "Early Firearms of Great Britain and Ireland from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford"). CONDITION: good. Metal retaining traces of original finishes showing considerable wear and cleaning to gray-brown. A good deal of temper blue remains on feather springs. Stocks retain most of what is probably an old oil refinish with many marks and scratches. A 2" x 1/4" piece of wood is missing from left front barrel channel of one pistol with crack continuing for another 2", otherwise stock is sound. The other pistol shows some cracks toward muzzle but no missing wood. Locks and frizzens are crisp. Safetys do not slide easily. Scratch rifled bores are dark with scattered pitting. (01-26466/MGM). ANTIQUE. $6,000-8,000.