A Fine Pair Of 32-Bore Percussion Target Or Duelling Pistols, By T. J. Mortimer, Maker to His Majesty, St. James's St., London, No. 4799, Circa 1830
A Fine Pair Of 32-Bore Percussion Target Or Duelling Pistols
By T. J. Mortimer, Maker to His Majesty, St. James's St., London, No. 4799, Circa 1830
With heavy richly browned twist octagonal sighted barrels signed in full in gothic script within scrolls along the top flat and each with bright bore, case-hardened breeches engraved with scrolling foliage and each with foliate engraved platinum line and platinum plug engraved with a flower-head, border engraved case-hardened tangs each with back-sight, signed case-hardened border engraved detented locks decorated with scrolling foliage, dolphin hammers and safety-catches en suite, the internal working parts retaining their burnished finish, highly figured half-stocks both stamped '441' to the left of the trigger-plate, chequered rounded butts (pommels each with oval insert, one with old split), border engraved blued steel trigger-guards each decorated with foliate scrollwork, blued trigger-plates with pineapple finial en suite, silver fore-end caps, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, original brass-mounted ramrods, and retaining virtually all their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including James Dixon & Sons powder-flask retaining nearly all its original lacquered finish, and steel bullet mould, the exterior of the lid with circular flush-fitting folding brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks
23.2 cm. barrels
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A Fine Pair Of 32-Bore Percussion Target Or Duelling Pistols
By T. J. Mortimer, Maker to His Majesty, St. James's St., London, No. 4799, Circa 1830
With heavy richly browned twist octagonal sighted barrels signed in full in gothic script within scrolls along the top flat and each with bright bore, case-hardened breeches engraved with scrolling foliage and each with foliate engraved platinum line and platinum plug engraved with a flower-head, border engraved case-hardened tangs each with back-sight, signed case-hardened border engraved detented locks decorated with scrolling foliage, dolphin hammers and safety-catches en suite, the internal working parts retaining their burnished finish, highly figured half-stocks both stamped '441' to the left of the trigger-plate, chequered rounded butts (pommels each with oval insert, one with old split), border engraved blued steel trigger-guards each decorated with foliate scrollwork, blued trigger-plates with pineapple finial en suite, silver fore-end caps, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, original brass-mounted ramrods, and retaining virtually all their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including James Dixon & Sons powder-flask retaining nearly all its original lacquered finish, and steel bullet mould, the exterior of the lid with circular flush-fitting folding brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks
23.2 cm. barrels
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