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