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A Very Fine Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Percussion Target Or Duelling PistolsBy T.E. Mortimer, Edinburgh, Late St. James' St., London, Nos. 5878 And 5879, Circa 1845
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£10,000 - £15,000
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A Very Fine Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Percussion Target Or Duelling Pistols
By T.E. Mortimer, Edinburgh, Late St. James' St., London, Nos. 5878 And 5879, Circa 1845
By T.E. Mortimer, Edinburgh, Late St. James' St., London, Nos. 5878 And 5879, Circa 1845
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels each rifled for a belted ball and signed in full in elaborate gothic script along the top flat, blued sights, border engraved case-hardened breeches each engraved with foliate scrollwork and with large pierced platinum plug, case-hardened scroll engraved tangs and signed border engraved detented locks, the internal working parts retaining their brightly burnished and case-hardened finish, dolphin hammers and safety-catches en suite with the locks, lacquered highly figured half-stocks with chequered rounded butts, the latter each with border engraved case-hardened ovoidal butt-cap decorated with scrolling foliage within a garland, swept blued steel trigger-guards decorated with scrolling foliage and each serial numbered on the tang, case-hardened trigger-plates each with scroll engraved pineapple-shaped finial, foliate engraved fore-end caps and barrel-bolt escutcheons, vacant silver escutcheons, no provision for ramrods, and retaining nearly all their original finish: in original fitted case lined in navy velvet with full accessories (bullet mould replaced) including Sykes three-way powder-flask (cut-off spring missing), one compartment sprung to prevent movement, the interior of the lid with large maker's trade label, the exterior with circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and motto, London proof marks and Mortimer's barrelsmith's mark
22.8 cm. barrels
22.8 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Provenance:
Ex Robin Rapley Collection
Literature:
H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, 1992, pp. 114-116, pls. 170-171
The crest and motto may be that of Finnie








