Jackson Mortimer (1762-1834) who was in business with Meyer was one of the top Scottish Gunmakers & Meyer supplied military apparel.
The pair of flintlock pistols have a 116 bore, 4 inch three-stage
barrels of silver with ferrous cores, the stocks of silver. Faceted at the breeches, round in the mid-stage and dodecagonal at the muzzle, chased all-over with scrolling acanthus and thistle details and with a thistle in an oval panel to the tops.
Birmingham proof marks. Steel locks with waterproof pans and roller bearing frizzen springs, engraved with scrolls and geometric borders and inscribed ''MEYER &
MORTIMER''; silver stocks engraved en suite
to the barrels and with thistles and trophies of arms in oval pan.
Measurements Each pistol
Overall length 19.5cm
Mortimer businesses in Edinburgh:-
Gray''s annual directory and Edinburgh almanac. Edinburgh : J. Gray, 1832-1837.
The following show the shop numbers, possibly Princes Street Edinburgh:-
103 Mr J
.... Mortimer, of Meyer and M.
103 MrT.E. Mortimer, gunmaker
105 Royal clan tartan warehouse
105 Meyer and Mortimer, army contractors, and tailors to his majesty.
Mortimer short history:-
Originally, there were three brothers: Harvey Walklate (H.W.) Mortimer, the eldest, who came to London from Newcastle-under-Lyme and established himself as a first-rate gunmaker specializing in pistols. Next was Thomas Mortimer, then Jackson Mortimer. They worked together, they worked apart, their families intertwined, as did their names. H.W. Mortimer is renowned as a maker of duelling pistols, a contemporary of Robert Wogdon and John Fox Twigg. Sons joined fathers (adding “& Son” to the company name) then left, or took over when the father retired and dropped the “& Son.”
Peter Harris Clocks & Militaria, Portobello Road
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Web page:-
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Internal Reference: 241218/01
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1114638
Dateline of this antique is 19th Century
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