Beschreibung:

A CASED 16-BORE D.B PERCUSSION RIFLE BY JOSEPH MANTON & SON, PATENT, 6 HOLLES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, LONDON No. 1056 (sic), circa 1836 With browned twist barrels each rifled with ten grooves, the right-hand barrel with browned sweated-on bar for attaching the bayonet, signed in full on the rib, white metal fore-sight, blued iron back-sight incorporating two folding leaves, engraved case-hardened breeches, platinum lines and plugs, engraved case-hardened breech tang, signed engraved locks, one decorated with a lion, the other with a leopard and each with blued sliding safety-catch, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, the butt with blued circular trap-cover engraved with a bush scene involving a lion killing a snake, blued butt-plate and trigger-guard, the former decorated with a tiger and the latter with European stags and a hind, blued trigger-plate with engraved stylised pineapple finial, the ramrod-pipe en suite , blued triggers, escutcheon, original ramrod, and the barrels retaining nearly all of their early browned finish, London proof marks (the remaining iron and steel parts professionally refinished): in lined and fitted mahagony case, perhaps the original (refinished, the interior rebuilt), the lid with brass circular escutcheon and flush-fitting handle, and with Brunswick sword-bayonet of Irish Constabulary type, with German silver hilt and in its original scabbard. 28¼ i n (71.8cm) barrels