Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A pair of very fine Scottish all-metal flintlock pocket pistols retailed by Meyer & Mortimer, 116 bore 4 in. three-stage barrels of silver with ferrous cores, faceted at the breeches, round in the mid-stage and dodecagonal at the muzzle, chased all-over with scrolling acanthus and thistle details and with a thistle in an oval panel to the tops, Birmingham proof; 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 panels to the grips, butts with characteristic ram's horns terminals; steel belt hooks, screw-out prickers to the butts, ball triggers, steel ramrods; early 19th century. [2]

(19.3cm OAL each)