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A Pair Of Very Fine Scottish, Silver, All-metal Flintlock Pocket Pistols By Meyer & Mortimer.

£8,500    $10,744    €10,202
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.”
 
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Antique #SA1114638, shown on this page, originates from the 19th century. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was made:
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