PAIR OF MORTIMER & SON FLINTLOCK GREATCOAT PISTOLS.

PAIR OF MORTIMER & SON FLINTLOCK GREATCOAT PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. About 60. Fine pair of Mortimers with 6-1/8″ rnd Damascus bbls with slot tops, tiny front sights and rear sights fixed to breech plug tangs. Top flats of bbls are engraved in period script “Mortimer & Son 44 Ludgate Hill / London Gunmakers to his Majesty”. They have front action locks with scalloped pans and bridled roller frizzens with gooseneck hammers & safeties. Lockplates & hammers have light engraving with matching engraved trigger guards and top tangs. Trigger guards have beautifully detailed pineapple finials. They have blued iron guides with decorative filed nosepipes containing their orig ebony & brass ramrods. They are mounted with very nicely figured 1-pc walnut stocks secured with sgl wedge through forestocks with raised side panels and checkered grips with starburst carved knobs. Accompanied by period mahogany casing that has been relined. Compartmented in bottom for the pistols, a small cleaning rod/rammer, a nutcracker bullet mold, a turn screw, patch cutter, small pewter oil bottle, a brass powder measure and a small Dixon bag flask. It has two covered compartments in corners with ivory knobs. CONDITION: About fine. One bbl retains most of its thin orig brown finish while the other with most of the brown missing. One stock has a crack at tip, otherwise wood is sound with fine nicks, scratches & dings and retains most of their orig oil finish. Mechanics are fine, strong clean bores. 4-31579 JR176 (4,500-6,500)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2007

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

Image	Lot	Price	Description
	1537	$8,050.00	PAIR OF MORTIMER & SON FLINTLOCK GREATCOAT PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. About 60. Fine pair of Mortimers with 6-1/8″ rnd Damascus bbls with slot tops, tiny front sights and rear sights fixed to breech plug tangs. Top flats of bbls are engraved in period script “Mortimer & Son 44 Ludgate Hill / London Gunmakers to his Majesty”. They have front action locks with scalloped pans and bridled roller frizzens with gooseneck hammers & safeties. Lockplates & hammers have light engraving with matching engraved trigger guards and top tangs. Trigger guards have beautifully detailed pineapple finials. They have blued iron guides with decorative filed nosepipes containing their orig ebony & brass ramrods. They are mounted with very nicely figured 1-pc walnut stocks secured with sgl wedge through forestocks with raised side panels and checkered grips with starburst carved knobs. Accompanied by period mahogany casing that has been relined. Compartmented in bottom for the pistols, a small cleaning rod/rammer, a nutcracker bullet mold, a turn screw, patch cutter, small pewter oil bottle, a brass powder measure and a small Dixon bag flask. It has two covered compartments in corners with ivory knobs. CONDITION: About fine. One bbl retains most of its thin orig brown finish while the other with most of the brown missing. One stock has a crack at tip, otherwise wood is sound with fine nicks, scratches & dings and retains most of their orig oil finish. Mechanics are fine, strong clean bores. 4-31579 JR176 (4,500-6,500) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2007 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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