with swamped barrel signed in a panel within a linear frame terminating with a flourish on the flat at the breech, stamped on the left with London proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark, fitted with silver ‘spider’ fore-sight, gold-lined vent, moulded tang grooved for sighting and engraved with scrolls and border ornament, rounded lock with moulded border, signed in block capitals beneath the pan, figured walnut full stock with take-down fore-end, full brass mounts comprising butt-plate engraved with border ornament and foliage on the tang, openwork side-plate decorated with foliage en rocaille, trigger-guard with early form acorn finial and a rococo flower on the bow, vacant rococo escutcheon, three moulded ramrod-pipes (later horn-tipped ramrod), 96.5 cm barrel

Provenance

Peter Dyson 1994

Jonathan Stanton was the nephew of William Turvey to whom he apprenticed in 1739. He was free of the Gunmakers’ Company, 1747, proof piece and mark, 1754, elected Assistant, 1761 and Master, 1765. He died the following year in 1766.