A Flintlock Coaching Pistol by H. W. Mortimer of London. With slightly swamped brass barrel singed in full along the top flat, ‘H.W.MORTIMER LONDON GUN MAKER TO HIS MAJESTY No 90’ stamped with London proofs, signed flat bevelled lock with safety catch, figured walnut full-stock (slither repair at the muzzle), with rounded butt, brass mounts of regulation type, comprising scrolling side-plate, pommel cap and trigger guard, brass ramrod pipes, with later brass tipped ramrod. 

MORTIMER 

Harvey Walklate Son of Samuel Mortimer, born 1753. Apprenticed to father, 1772; free of Farriers Co., 1782; elected Assistant, 1807. Gunmaker, at Mr Green’s ironmonger, 6 Kings Street., Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1779; 89 Fleet Street., 1782-99. Appointed Gunmaker to George III, 1783. Contractor to East India Co., 1796-1806. Specialised in repeating pistols and gold mounted guns for the Eastern market. Advertised ‘For the Inspection of the Curious, just finished, Three pair of Elegant Pistols, mounted in solid gold value £547 intended as a present to a foreign Prince’, 1784 (Morning Herald, 20 August). Registered mark as small worker at Goldsmiths Hall, 1798. Made gold-mounted firearms set with diamonds for the U.S. Government as present for Bey of Tunis, 1801-2. Member of Law Association Volunteers, provided their muskets, 1803. His own musket in Inns of Court Museum, London. Became H. W. Mortimer, Son & T. Mortimer. Retired, 1811. Died 1819.   

Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. 

Dimensions:

Bore: 16 Bore

Barrel Length: 9.25 Inches (23.49 cm)

Overall Length: 14.5 Inches (36.83 cm)