A PAIR OF 40 BORE FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOLS BY HARVEY WALKLATE MORTIMER, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, CIRCA 1799-1806 with turn-off barrels, rounded breeches finely engraved with foliage and a trophy-of-arms, signed on a continuous scroll 'H. W. Mortimer, London Gunmaker to his Majesty', engraved tangs decorated with a radiating pattern of sunbursts, side-action rounded locks fitted with border-engraved cocks and steels, bolt safety-catches and filed blued steel springs with rollers, folding triggers, and swelling walnut butts cut with a fine pattern of chequering and incised with an expanded flowerhead on the base 3.8 cm; 1 1/2 in barrels (2) Harvey Walklate Mortimer was appointed gunmaker to George III in 1783 and made gold-mounted firearms set with diamonds for the United States Government as presents for the Bey of Tunis circa 1801-2. For other pistols of this type see Munson 1992, pp. 214-5.