JOSEPH MANTON, LONDON AN INTERESTING 14-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, no visible serial number, circa 1810 with conversions to pill-lock then percussion, with Birmingham proved 30in. twist barrels possibly by another re-using the unsigned Manton elevated rib, angled breech-blocks with rear-facing nipples, scroll engraved top-tang, the scrolls inhabited with feathered serpents, bar-action locks signed 'JOSEPH MANTON, PATENT' and engraved with feathered scrolls and serpents, the slab-sided hammers with patent detachable noses (one locking spring at fault) and apparently originally provided with gravitational stops (now absent bar the hinge-pins), walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, iron furniture including raised and scrolled lower tang and complete with its original ebony ramrod.

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