Product Details
A CASED PAIR OF 40 BORE PERCUSSION SAW-HANDLED DUELLING or TARGET PISTOLS BY H.W. MORTIMER & SON, LONDON, serial numbered 1241,
circa 1809, with later conversion to percussion probably by the manufacturer, rebrowned 10 1/4in. octagonal barrels signed 'H.W. MORTIMER & SON' over 'GUN MAKERS TO HIS MAJESTY', dove-tailed fore-sights, standing notch rear-sights to the front of the engraved and grooved top-tangs, engraved colour hardened breech-blocks, border and scroll engraved re-colour hardened locks signed 'H.W. MORTIMER & SON', further trophy engraved to the tails, scroll engraved hammers, walnut full-stocks with chequered saw-handled grips and swollen flat-based pommels, engraved oval iron caps, set triggers with engraved spurred trigger-guards also marked '89 FLEET ST'T' and horn tipped ramrods with tool ends, together with a possibly later oak case lined and compartmented in green baize ( some compartments loose) and containing a turn-screw and nipple-key, a scissors ball-mould, a later flask and sundry other accessories
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Estimate £3,000-5,000