A Good Pair of Silver Inlaid Pocket Pistols by H.W. Mortimer & Son. With round turn-off barrels, decorated with geometric bands at the breech, side-mounted sprung bayonets, and engraved ‘St. JamesS St London’ silver inlaid box-lock actions, decorated with scrolling silver foliage, fitted with bayonet release catch to the left and signed within an oval decorated with stands of arms, fitted with sliding safety catches, slab sided walnut butts decorated with scrolling silver wire and flower heads and foliate decorated oval escutcheon. A very good pair of silver mounted pocket pistols by a great English maker. 

MORTIMER

Harvey Walklate

Son of Harvey Walklate, apprenticed to father, 1791; free of Farriers Co., 1799. Gunmaker in partnership with father and uncle as H.W. Mortimer, Son & T. Mortimer, 1800-1807; with father as H.W. Mortimer & Son, 1808-14; own business as gunmaker, 89 Fleet Street., 1814-22; 4 East Street., Hoxton, 1823-4. 

Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. 

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