Peter Harris Clocks & Militaria has dated this Scottish Silver Flintlock Pistol to the 19th Century.
The pair of flintlock pistols have a 116 bore, 4 inch three-stage
barrels of silver with ferrous cores, the stocks of silver.
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 has dated this Scottish Silver Flintlock Pistol to the 19th Century.
We specialise in flintlock pistols, muskets, clocks & watches
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Pair of Scottish, Silver Flintlock Pocket Pistols by Meyer & Mortimer.
