A Fine and Rare Pair of Flintlock Overcoat Pistols Reportedly For An Inspector of Mail Coaches
With stout browned two-stage barrels, each engraved ‘H.W. Mortimer, London, Gunmaker to His Majesty’. Foliate engraved tangs, signed bevelled locks each engraved, ’89 Fleet Street’ and fitted with a sliding safety, with stepped tail, bevelled cocks, figured full-stocks with rounded butts, brass trigger guards each engraved with foliage on the bow and pineapple finals and turned ramrod-pipes, with original brass tipped ramrods.
Notes:
Both of the pistols are numbered ’5099’ on the top of the locks and under the barrels, they are of an exact pattern later taken on by J. Harding.
Harvey Walklate
Son of Harvey Walklate, apprenticed to father, 1791; free of Farriers Co., 1799. Gunmaker in partnership with father and uncle as H.W. Mortimer, Son & T. Mortimer, 1800-1807; with father as H.W. Mortimer & Son, 1808-14; own business as gunmaker, 89 Fleet Street., 1814-22; 4 East Street., Hoxton, 1823-4.
Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA.
Dimensions:
Bore: 38 Bore
Barrel Length: 4 Inches (10.16 cm)
Overall Length: 8 Inches (20.32 cm)
£5,950.00
1 in stock
