‡A 28 BORE FLINTLOCK OVER-AND-UNDER TAP-ACTION POCKET PISTOL BY H.W.MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, CIRCA 1785 with turn-off barrels cut for a key at the muzzles, engraved with a band and numbered '2' and '3' at the breeches, engraved box-lock action signed on a scroll on the left and inscribed 'Gunmaker to his Majesty' on the right each on a pair of scrolls carried by elaborate trophies-of-arms, fitted with sliding thumb-piece safety-catch also locking the steel, tap-lever on the left and folding trigger and flat-sided walnut butt 3.7 cm; 1 1/2 in barrels Provenance Edred Gwilliam, Cricklade, 1982 Literature H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, Rhode Island 1992, p. 250.