AN UNUSUAL SAW-HANDLED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL with browned twist octagonal sighted barrel signed in full on the breech and with gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved case-hardened tang, border engraved signed case-hardened lock with roller, semi-rainproof pan, safety-catch, and 'French' cock (top jaw and screw associated), figured walnut full stock, chequered butt and fore-end, engraved blued iron mounts including spurred trigger-guard with pineapple finial, set trigger, original horn-tipped ramrod, and much original finish, by H.W. Mortimer & Co., Gun-Makers to His Majesty, London, circa 1800-1805

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AN UNUSUAL SAW-HANDLED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL with browned twist octagonal sighted barrel signed in full on the breech and with gold-lined touch-hole, engraved grooved case-hardened tang, border engraved signed case-hardened lock with roller, semi-rainproof pan, safety-catch, and 'French' cock (top jaw and screw associated), figured walnut full stock, chequered butt and fore-end, engraved blued iron mounts including spurred trigger-guard with pineapple finial, set trigger, original horn-tipped ramrod, and much original finish, by H.W. Mortimer & Co., Gun-Makers to His Majesty, London, circa 1800-1805
15½in.
Literature
Wilfrid Ward, 'Duels & Duelling', p. 451
'British Pistol Duelling and its Weapons', p. 15

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