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Lot 389

A Pair Of 34-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By H.W. Mortimer & Co., London, Gun-Maker To His Majesty, Circa 1800

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of 34-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By H.W. Mortimer & Co., London, Gun-Maker To His Majesty, Circa 1800

With turn-off barrels each engraved with a band of repeated foliage at the breech, border engraved actions signed within an oval and foliage on one side, and inscribed 'Gun-Maker To His Majesty' on a foliated scroll involving a martial trophy on the other, engraved thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steels, folding triggers, and figured flat-sided butts: in contemporary woollen 'shoddies', London proof marks and * assembly marks on the barrels and breeches (4)
4.7 cm. barrels

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Provenance
W. Keith Neal Collection, P344/5
Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 9 November 2000, lot 188
Sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms & Armour..., 30 November 2011, lot 388

Literature
Munson, pp. 208-209, pp. 336

Harvey Walklate 2 Mortimer was apprenticed to his father in 1791. He was in partnership with his father and uncle as H.W. Mortimer, Son & T. Mortimer between 1800 and 1806, with his father as H.W. Mortimer & Son from 1806 to 1813 and on his own account as a gunmaker at 89 Fleet Street, London, from 1814 to 1816, the year of his retirement to Algar House, Fersfield, Norfolk

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