A FINE D.B. FLINTLOCK CARRIAGE PISTOL with browned twist barrels signed in full and with silver fore-sight, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved case-hardened tangs, signed case-hardened bevelled locks each with safety-catch, figured walnut half-stock, chequered butt with spirally fluted pommel, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, original horn-tipped ramrod, and much original finish, by H.W. Mortimer, Gun-Maker to His Majesty, London, circa 1795 16¼in.
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A FINE D.B. FLINTLOCK CARRIAGE PISTOL with browned twist barrels signed in full and with silver fore-sight, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved case-hardened tangs, signed case-hardened bevelled locks each with safety-catch, figured walnut half-stock, chequered butt with spirally fluted pommel, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, original horn-tipped ramrod, and much original finish, by H.W. Mortimer, Gun-Maker to His Majesty, London, circa 1795 16¼in.
Lot Essay
For similar pistols see H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers, pp. 246-7
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