5th Aug, 2025 10:00

SUMMER VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION

 
  Lot 328
 

328

A FINE QUALITY CASED PAIR OF 22-BORE GOLD INLAID FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY H.W. MORTIMER

10inch sighted octagonal browned damascus barrels engraved LONDON GUN MAKERS TO HIS MAJESTY, gold lined muzzles and fore-sights, gold lined breeches decorated with flowers of the Union and H.W. MORTIMER & CO. in scroll banner form, the tangs inlaid in gold with a stand of arms and a laurel spray, stepped and bolted locks signed H.W. Mortimer & Co., gold lined touch holes, gold lined rain-proof pans, roller frizzens, traces of original case colour, half stocked with chequered wooden grips, vacant white metal shield-shaped escutcheons, the butts carved with the characteristic Mortimer swirl, spur trigger guards with set triggers decorated with stands of arms and with pineapple finials and retaining about 40% original blue, in their green baize lined mahogany case complete with red leather covered three-way flask, cleaning rod, powder measure, oil bottle, bullet mould, chamois ball bag and Morocco leather flint roll, the lid with maker's trade label for H.W. Mortimer, Son & T, Mortimer.

Sold for £7,000


 

10inch sighted octagonal browned damascus barrels engraved LONDON GUN MAKERS TO HIS MAJESTY, gold lined muzzles and fore-sights, gold lined breeches decorated with flowers of the Union and H.W. MORTIMER & CO. in scroll banner form, the tangs inlaid in gold with a stand of arms and a laurel spray, stepped and bolted locks signed H.W. Mortimer & Co., gold lined touch holes, gold lined rain-proof pans, roller frizzens, traces of original case colour, half stocked with chequered wooden grips, vacant white metal shield-shaped escutcheons, the butts carved with the characteristic Mortimer swirl, spur trigger guards with set triggers decorated with stands of arms and with pineapple finials and retaining about 40% original blue, in their green baize lined mahogany case complete with red leather covered three-way flask, cleaning rod, powder measure, oil bottle, bullet mould, chamois ball bag and Morocco leather flint roll, the lid with maker's trade label for H.W. Mortimer, Son & T, Mortimer.

Auction: SUMMER VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION, 5th Aug, 2025

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