An Incredibly Rare Pair of Mail Coach Pistols by H.W. Mortimer No. 287.
An Incredibly Rare Pair of Mail Coach Pistols by H.W. Mortimer No. 287. With slightly swamped brass barrel signed in full and numbered along the top flat at the breech and engraved ‘HW Mortimer & Co London Gun Makers To His Majesty 287’, the muzzles also retaining original engraving (rubbed) signed flat bevelled locks with safety-catch, figured full stocks with rounded butts, brass mounts of regulation type comprising scrolled side-plate, pommel-cap and trigger-guard, brass ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrods, London proof marks.
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.
Dimensions:
Bore: 18 Bore
Barrel Length: 9 Inches (
Overall Length: 14.5 Inches (
£4,950.00
1 in stock
