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Ⓐ TWO 18 BORE FLINTLOCK MAIL COACH PISTOLS BY H.W.MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKERS TO HIS MAJESTY, NOS. 95 & 112, CIRCA 1810 AND AN 18 BORE FLINTLOCK LIVERY PISTOL BY KETLAND, WALKER & CO., CIRCA 1820 the first and second each with swamped brass barrel signed ~H. W. Mortimer & Son, Gunmakers to His Majesty~ and numbered on the flat (rubbed, indistinct), iron tang, signed stepped bevelled lock (rubbed, one legible the other with only traces, cocks and steel springs missing), fitted with bolt safety-catch, figured full stock (one fore-end chipped) and brass mounts of regulation type; and the third with tapering barrel struck with Ordnance marks at the breech, signed lock (cock, steel and spring missing), full stock and brass mounts of regulation type the first: 23.4 cm; 9 1/4 in barrel (3) For further information and details of the earliest payments made to Mortimer for the supply of these pistols (the first and second) see Wilkinson 2002, p. 120. Property from the David Jeffcoat Collection (1945-2020) Part proceeds to benefit Westminster Abbey