JOHN MANTON, LONDON A 16-BORE PINFIRE DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, serial no. 11664, for between 1845-49 and converted by the maker from percussion, with 29in. barrels, slightly elevated top-rib signed in script 'JOHN MANTON & SON DOVER STREET LONDON' and numbered for '2' of a pair, scroll engraved bands to breech-ends, shallow carved percussion fences and broad scroll engraved top-tang, border, scroll and game-scene engraved bar-action locks signed 'JOHN MANTON & SON' and modified from the original percussion examples (traces of colour), border and scroll engraved action body with Jones-type swing-under-lever, walnut straight-hand butt-stock chequered at the wrist, engraved iron furniture, the heel-plate numbered '2' on the face, a hunting dog engraved to the trigger guard bow (concealed by the under-lever) and fully chequered walnut splinter fore-end with cross-key fastener. Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament