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BY H.W. MORTIMER, LONDON, CIRCA 1780
Details
A CASED PAIR OF 16-BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS
BY H.W. MORTIMER, LONDON, CIRCA 1780
With rebrowned two-stage swamped Spanish barrels each struck on the octagonal breech section with the maker's mark of Francisco Massavi (similar to Neue Stockel 7875), the Barcelona city mark Neue Stockel 8512) and a series of silver-lined marks and dots, chiselled girdles, silver fore-sights, iron tangs each incorporating the rear-sight and engraved with flowering foliage and a band of beadwork, lightly engraved flat bevelled bolted locks each signed 'H.W. MORTIMER' and with stepped tail and roller, figured walnut full stocks (one with repair to left side of fore-end, the other cracked in the ramrod channel) each with diamond chequered butt with foliate carved pommel, engraved iron mounts, and later horn-tipped ramrods (light pitting to iron parts), London proof marks, in later relined and refitted brass-bound mahogany case with some accessories including a brass-mounted copper two-way pistol-flask, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon and flush-fitting brass carrying handle
11 5/8in. (29.5cm.) barrels (2)
BY H.W. MORTIMER, LONDON, CIRCA 1780
With rebrowned two-stage swamped Spanish barrels each struck on the octagonal breech section with the maker's mark of Francisco Massavi (similar to Neue Stockel 7875), the Barcelona city mark Neue Stockel 8512) and a series of silver-lined marks and dots, chiselled girdles, silver fore-sights, iron tangs each incorporating the rear-sight and engraved with flowering foliage and a band of beadwork, lightly engraved flat bevelled bolted locks each signed 'H.W. MORTIMER' and with stepped tail and roller, figured walnut full stocks (one with repair to left side of fore-end, the other cracked in the ramrod channel) each with diamond chequered butt with foliate carved pommel, engraved iron mounts, and later horn-tipped ramrods (light pitting to iron parts), London proof marks, in later relined and refitted brass-bound mahogany case with some accessories including a brass-mounted copper two-way pistol-flask, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon and flush-fitting brass carrying handle
11 5/8in. (29.5cm.) barrels (2)
Literature
H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, pp. 166-7, pl. 257 (one the pair).