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Lot 139

A Cased Pair Of 34-Bore Flintlock Travelling Or Overcoat Pistols
By H.W. Mortimer & Son, 89 Fleet St., Gun-Makers To His Majesty, No. 1365, Circa 1812

24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Cased Pair Of 34-Bore Flintlock Travelling Or Overcoat Pistols
By H.W. Mortimer & Son, 89 Fleet St., Gun-Makers To His Majesty, No. 1365, Circa 1812

With rebrowned octagonal barrels each signed in full along the top flat, gold-lined touch-holes, foliate engraved tangs incorporating the back-sight, signed border engraved flat locks each decorated with a starburst behind the pan and with a martial trophy beneath the blued safety-catch, foliate engraved 'French' cocks, rollers, figured full stocks with pineapple chequered rounded butts, the pommels cut with radiating lines, blued trigger guards each with pineapple finial and engraved with the maker's address on the bow, blued turned ramrod-pipes, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and original horn-tipped ramrods each with brass-capped worm: in their lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask, the interior of the lid with trimmed trade label of Edward Patrick, and the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle, London proof marks and Harvey Mortimer's barrelsmith's mark
10 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Harvey Walklate 2 Mortimer was apprenticed to his father in 1791. He was in partnership with his father and uncle as H.W. Mortimer, Son & T. Mortimer between 1800 and 1806, with his father as H.W. Mortimer & Son from 1806 to 1813 and on his own account as gunmaker at 89 Fleet Street from 1814 to 1822

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