Made around 1837, this Joseph Manton & Son percussion shotgun comes from the early days of the percussion era and carries the name of one of Britain’s most important gunmakers. Even better, it’s documented in W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back’s The Mantons: Gunmakers.
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