A Very Fine Cased Pair Of 32-Bore Saw-Handled Flintlock Duelling Pistols

By H.W. Mortimer & Son, 89 Fleet St.t., London, Gun-Makers To His Majesty London, No. 1324, Circa 1810

With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels (one fore-sight missing) each signed in full along the top flat at the breech and rifled up to an inch inside the muzzle, the latter each with platinum line and platinum-lined touch-hole, grooved case-hardened tangs each engraved with foliate border and incorporating a back-sight, signed case-hardened border engraved serial numbered detented locks each decorated with a martial trophy on the tail, engraved safety-catches, rainproof pans, blued steel-springs with rollers, and foliate engraved 'French' cocks, the internal working parts retaining their brightly burnished finish, figured full stocks (one fore-end with minor splits) each serial numbered in ink on the inside and with grooved spur, chequered rounded butts, oval pommels each inlaid with a border engraved oval bright steel plate, blued steel mounts comprising border engraved spur trigger-guards each engraved with the maker's address in an oval on a martial trophy, case-hardened trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, blued adjustable set triggers, blued turned ramrod-pipes, original horn-tipped ramrods, and most of their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with full accessories including later brass-mounted three-way flask, the interior of the lid with maker's illustrated trade label for circa 1806-1813, the exterior with circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon, and with an old paper label pasted on printed 'H. Everard, 29th Regt.', London proof marks and Mortimer's barrelsmith's mark
24.8 cm. barrels