Beschreibung:

With heavy browned twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed in gold '.. Joseph Manton's Patent London..' along the top flat between the gold-inlaid inscriptions '... Ne Tirez Pas sans Raison...' and 'Retournex Pas sans Honneur ..', gold fore-sights each on an engraved gold-inlaid double foliate scroll hung with a festoon, a line of engraved gold foliage around the muzzles, and an engraved martial trophy centred on a flaming urn at each breech, the breeches and tangs decorated en suite, the latter each carrying a dovetailed back-sight and with gold-lined touch-hole, flat detented locks each inlaid in gold with engraved martial and musical trophies, the former signed on a gold oval beneath the gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, the internal working parts retaining most of their original burnished finish, bevelled cocks (one repaired) inlaid in gold with a cornucopia, the retaining screws, top jaws and steels all inlaid with gold foliage, plain safety-catches, and rollers bearing on a ramp on the blued steel-springs, highly figured full stocks (one broken through and repaired at the lock and butt) with chequered rounded butts (some bruising, one repaired and partly rechequered), the latter each with iron mount for the shoulder-stock, numbered '1' and '2' respectively, and each with a detachable blued oval cover, blued iron mounts comprising border engraved rounded butt-caps each with a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, spur trigger-guards each with engraved pineapple finial and decorated with a elaborate martial trophy suspended from a ribbon on the bow, blued ramrod-pipes, large gold escutcheons engraved with Thornton's coat-of-arms and mottoes, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, original horn-tipped ramrods, one with iron worm, and much of their original finish (barrels with minor rust patination): in original lined and fitted vertical casing of mahogany with accessories including original attachable highly figured skeleton stock (some bruising) with border engraved iron mount, brass-mounted three-way powder-flask covered in red leather, blued bullet mould, and rare Manton breech scraper, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label of circa 1795 to 1805, the exterior with large flush-fitting brass carrying handle 23 cm. barrels