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Flintlock Travelling Pistols by H.W.Mortimer. SN 8684
Flintlock Travelling Pistols by H.W.Mortimer. SN 8684
Flintlock Travelling Pistols by H.W.Mortimer. SN 8684
Flintlock Travelling Pistols by H.W.Mortimer. SN 8684
Flintlock Travelling Pistols by H.W.Mortimer. SN 8684
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A Pair of Flintlock Travelling Pistols by H.W.Mortimer. SN 8684

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A pair of Flintlock Travelling Pistols by H.W.Mortimer,

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11” overall, 5 3/8” turn-off barrels engraved with a band of foliage around the breeches and one numbered '1', finely engraved box-lock actions, inscribed 'Gunmaker to his Majesty' on a scroll over an artillery encampment on the left and signed on a panel carried by an elaborate trophy-of-arms on the right, fitted with sliding thumb-piece safety-catches also locking the steels and folding triggers, swelling figured walnut butts fitted with engraved silver caps each engraved with a sunburst, and border-engraved vacant silver escutcheons .

An unusual pair of pistols in good condition.

Circa 1785-90 

Provenance The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) Literature H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, Rhode Island 1992, pp. 216-217.