FABULOUS CASED PAIR OF JOHN MANTON & SON PERCUSSION DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUNS.

FABULOUS CASED PAIR OF JOHN MANTON & SON PERCUSSION DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUNS. SN 10817 & 10818. Cal. About 14 bore. Spectacular pair of shotguns with 29-1/4″ Damascus bbls with raised, concave, smooth ribs & sgl beads. Ribs are marked with maker’s name & address. Each set of bbls has two Damascus guides on bottom containing their orig ebony & brass ramrods with concealed worms. They have beautiful front action locks and fine breech plugs with side reinforcements & platinum blow out plugs. Lockplates, hammers, breech plugs & trigger guards are beautifully engraved with two pheasants on each lockplate & a pair of bird dogs on trigger bow, surrounded by very nice, tastefully executed foliate arabesque patterns. Trigger guard & nose pipe have beautiful pineapple finials and buttplate tangs are long & stepped with a bird dog at each heel. They are mounted in matching, highly figured, tiger striped & feather crotch English walnut 1-pc stocks with a sgl wedge through forestock. They have 14-1/2″ LOP with checkered straight hand grip and smooth steel buttplates. They are accompanied by their orig green felt lined, walnut casing with concealed handle in lid & brass reinforced corners with maker’s label inside lid. Top tray is compartmented for the two stocks with various compartments containing an ebony handled turn screw, a thread cleaner & another small tool for deburring something along with a Hawksley pewter oil bottle. Bottom tray is compartmented for two sets of bbls with two leather covered Hawksley-type flasks & two leather & brass shot pouches. There is also a fine nipple wrench with concealed pick & spare nipple storage, along with a wad cutter. PROVENANCE: Glenn Marsh Collection. CONDITION: Extremely fine. Both sets of bbls retain virtually all of their orig dark brown Damascus pattern and lockplates virtually all of their orig bright case colors with most of orig shellac. Stocks are all sound with some minor flaking of finish on #10817 and both have moderately crazed finish. Buttplate on #10817 is glossy & bright orig blue. Buttplate on #10818 has flaked to about 50% glossy orig blue. Mechanics are crisp, bores are all strong with some fine pitting with moderate pitting in right bore of #10818. Case has three cracks in lid with some slight shrinkage and a loose joint or two, otherwise exterior has usual handling & storage marks and retains most of its orig finish. Interior is moderately faded & soiled showing light wear. One of flasks shows considerable dryness & a crack in leather, otherwise flasks are all fine. 4-59594 JR289 (12,500-17,500)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2007

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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	3269	$22,425.00	FABULOUS CASED PAIR OF JOHN MANTON & SON PERCUSSION DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUNS. SN 10817 & 10818. Cal. About 14 bore. Spectacular pair of shotguns with 29-1/4″ Damascus bbls with raised, concave, smooth ribs & sgl beads. Ribs are marked with maker’s name & address. Each set of bbls has two Damascus guides on bottom containing their orig ebony & brass ramrods with concealed worms. They have beautiful front action locks and fine breech plugs with side reinforcements & platinum blow out plugs. Lockplates, hammers, breech plugs & trigger guards are beautifully engraved with two pheasants on each lockplate & a pair of bird dogs on trigger bow, surrounded by very nice, tastefully executed foliate arabesque patterns. Trigger guard & nose pipe have beautiful pineapple finials and buttplate tangs are long & stepped with a bird dog at each heel. They are mounted in matching, highly figured, tiger striped & feather crotch English walnut 1-pc stocks with a sgl wedge through forestock. They have 14-1/2″ LOP with checkered straight hand grip and smooth steel buttplates. They are accompanied by their orig green felt lined, walnut casing with concealed handle in lid & brass reinforced corners with maker’s label inside lid. Top tray is compartmented for the two stocks with various compartments containing an ebony handled turn screw, a thread cleaner & another small tool for deburring something along with a Hawksley pewter oil bottle. Bottom tray is compartmented for two sets of bbls with two leather covered Hawksley-type flasks & two leather & brass shot pouches. There is also a fine nipple wrench with concealed pick & spare nipple storage, along with a wad cutter. PROVENANCE: Glenn Marsh Collection. CONDITION: Extremely fine. Both sets of bbls retain virtually all of their orig dark brown Damascus pattern and lockplates virtually all of their orig bright case colors with most of orig shellac. Stocks are all sound with some minor flaking of finish on #10817 and both have moderately crazed finish. Buttplate on #10817 is glossy & bright orig blue. Buttplate on #10818 has flaked to about 50% glossy orig blue. Mechanics are crisp, bores are all strong with some fine pitting with moderate pitting in right bore of #10818. Case has three cracks in lid with some slight shrinkage and a loose joint or two, otherwise exterior has usual handling & storage marks and retains most of its orig finish. Interior is moderately faded & soiled showing light wear. One of flasks shows considerable dryness & a crack in leather, otherwise flasks are all fine. 4-59594 JR289 (12,500-17,500) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2007 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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