JOHN MANTON & SON, LONDON A FINE 22-BORE DOUBLE-BARRELLED PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN IN A JOHN DICKSON, EDINBURGH, CASE, serial no. 9724, for 1828, with browned laminated 28in. barrels, raised top-rib signed 'JOHN MANTON & SON, DOVER STREET' and engraved with a celtic garter to the rib-end at breech, colour hardened breech-blocks with engraved borders around the nipple-wells and vented platinum plugs, colour hardened borderline and foliate engraved top-tang, borderline and scroll engraved bar action locks, the scrolls inhabited by serpents and signed centrally 'JOHN MANTON & SON' over 'PATENT', engraved and colour hardened swept-forwards dolphin-headed hammers, the sidenail of the locks also passing through the breech-hooks, figured walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, blued iron furniture except white metal barrel key escutcheons, crested oval escutcheon to underside of butt and colour hardened ramrod throat, remaining in fine condition and retaining much period finish and together with a John Dickson, Edinburgh oak case, lined and compartmented in green baize apparently for this shotgun, and complete with a fine James Dixon powder-flask, a small-size leather shot flask and other sundry tools.