Antique Flintlock Pistols by HW Mortimer & Co.

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£35,000

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Antique Flintlock Pistols by HW Morimer & Co.

Signed HW. MORTIMER & Co, the flat engraved locks with signed safety slides within a silver ribbon, flat sided cocks with inlaid silver foliate decoration, the top jaws decorated with silver sunrays, gold-lined pans and touch holes, roller frizzen springs, three stage barrels with Birmingham proof marks, three silver crescents inlaid into the tangs, the breeches with double lines of silver rouletting; a silver oval engraved London surrounded by silver foliate decoration, a large silver crescent with a pair of lances rising from the centre with attached banners with a turban with three feathers and swords forming a central trophy with an inlaid silver sunburst and silver lines running the length of the barrel to the silver spider foresight; the silver spurred pommels decorated with sunburst decoration, the silver trigger guards bearing Birmingham hall marks for 1803 with makers mark I:B with four-sided acanthus leaves forming the central decoration of the guard and with a trophy of arms finial, the full walnut stock entirely inlaid with silver wire decoration including cornucopiae, star bursts, arrows piercing hearts, a martial escutcheon bearing an engraved family crest topped by a helmet, a silver ramrod (one with missing silver tip].

50.8cm long

Mortimers were renowned makers of decorated firearms. The gunmaker received Royal appointment to King George III in 1783, H.W. senior and son having same name, the younger Mortimer apprenticed to his father in 1791, and appointed Gunmaker to King George III in 1805. A fine silver inlaid flintlock fowling piece for the Turkish market and a case of duelling pistols by this maker from the Keith Neal Collection is on display in the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers proof house in London.

£35,000

 
 

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