. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. V I f f 768 yVw MANTON 1 gun-makers of less note. We give an illustration of the Manton fowling-piece, showing his well-known pattern hammers and cocks, the water-tight flash-pan. and his gravitating stops. Joseph Man- ton, although he received the extraordinarily high price of seventy guineas for his best guns, failed seyeral times, and died poor. This is accounted for partly by the losses he sustained in lawsuits res
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. V I f f 768 yVw MANTON 1 gun-makers of less note. We give an illustration of the Manton fowling-piece, showing his well-known pattern hammers and cocks, the water-tight flash-pan. and his gravitating stops. Joseph Man- ton, although he received the extraordinarily high price of seventy guineas for his best guns, failed seyeral times, and died poor. This is accounted for partly by the losses he sustained in lawsuits respecting his patents. He was buried in Kensington Cemetery, and a monument bearing his epitaph, composed by Colonel Hawker, gives the date of his death — 29th June, 1835, aged si.\ty-nine—and eulogizes his work as a practical gun-maker and ; Between 1S07 and 1S25, several inventors endeavored to replace the uncertain and slow fire of the flint-lock by the surer and quicker ignition given by the explosion of a fulminate. Several devices, such as "detonating tubes" placed in the touch-hole and armed with ful- minate, fulminate placed in the bottom of the cartridge and exploded by the perforation of a needle, and fulminate inclosed between paper or metallic foil, were tried, till the well-known nipple and copper cap was devised about 1818, an invention which is claimed by Colonel Hawker, who showed this plan first to Manton. In 1836, Lefaucheux, of Paris, invented his pin-fire cartridge and his breech-loader. I place th6 cartridge first, for breech-loaders, too numerous and varied to mention, had been invented before; but the modern breech-loader owes its hearty approval of sportsmen to the admirable invention of the Lefaucheux cartridsxe, with its stout, unyielding flanged base, without which, or its <quivalent in the Pottet central-pin cartridge of 1856, the breech-loader would never have had the extensive use it now deservedly Pl
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