Double-Barreled Side-by-Side Tube-Lock Shotgun with Case

Gunsmith Joseph Manton British
 Barrelsmith Charles Lancaster British

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Joseph Manton, one of the most influential and esteemed gunmakers in London in the late 18th –early 19th century, patented the tube-lock mechanism in 1818 (patent no. 4285). London gunmakers invented dozens of new percussion technologies in the first half of the 19th century, but the tube-lock was one of the few that was widely adopted. This shotgun is a typical example of the type made by the technology’s inventor.

Double-Barreled Side-by-Side Tube-Lock Shotgun with Case, Joseph Manton (British, Grantham, Lincolnshire 1766–1835 London), Steel, wood (walnut, mahogany), horn, brass, silver, British, London

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Double-Barreled Side-by-Side Tube-Lock Shotgun with Case, Joseph Manton (British, Grantham, Lincolnshire 1766–1835 London), Steel, wood (walnut, mahogany), horn, brass, silver, British, London
Double-Barreled Side-by-Side Tube-Lock Shotgun with Case, Joseph Manton (British, Grantham, Lincolnshire 1766–1835 London), Steel, wood (walnut, mahogany), horn, brass, silver, British, London
Double-Barreled Side-by-Side Tube-Lock Shotgun with Case, Joseph Manton (British, Grantham, Lincolnshire 1766–1835 London), Steel, wood (walnut, mahogany), horn, brass, silver, British, London
Double-Barreled Side-by-Side Tube-Lock Shotgun with Case, Joseph Manton (British, Grantham, Lincolnshire 1766–1835 London), Steel, wood (walnut, mahogany), horn, brass, silver, British, London
Double-Barreled Side-by-Side Tube-Lock Shotgun with Case, Joseph Manton (British, Grantham, Lincolnshire 1766–1835 London), Steel, wood (walnut, mahogany), horn, brass, silver, British, London

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