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Lot 340

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

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

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

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

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