Available Guns

The gun is in excellent condition inside and out and the action, with scroll engraving has had its colour renewed. Fitted with a finely figured stock and finished off with a slim horn heeplate. The barrels are true inside and out and the bores are perfect and it also benefits from 2 3/4in chambers and the necessary re-proof. 

In order to prepare the gun for sale we have given the gun a full service, strip and clean and the stock and fore-end wood has been sympathetically cleaned, re-oiled and the chequering cleaned out. The barrels have been re-browned and the furniture has been re-blacked, and all the pins blued. The gun comes in a fitted canvas case with Mortimer leather label. 

• Price: $5950
• Action: Anson & Deeley, third bite, top lever with Scott spindle and Purdey bolt, Anson push-rod fore-end 
• Gauge: 12
• Barrel Material: Damascus 
• Barrel Length : 30in
• Chambers: 2 3/4in
• Proof: Birmingham Nitro Proof at 18.5mm (R) & 18.4 (L)
• Bores: 18.5 (R) & 18.4 (L)
• Walls: .0  (R) & .0 (L)
• Chokes : CYL (R) & 5/8 (L)
• Ejectors: Yes, Baker type
• Stock dimensions: 1 1/2in drop at comb, 2 1/8in drop at heel, 14 1/4in at heel, 14 1/8into centre, 14 5/8in at toe 
• Cast Off: 3/8in
• Weight: 6lb 8oz
• Location: MacNab Fine Firearms, Bedford, Virginia, USA

Mortimer & Son

The gun making empire of the Mortimer’s was founded by the sons of Samuel Mortimer of London, a victualler – a landlord of a licensed establishment selling alcohol. All three sons became gunmakers in their own right.

Harvey Walkate Mortimer was born in 1753, and the second son, Thomas in 1755. They went into partnership and traded as H. W. Mortimer and T. Mortimer from 1800 to 1807 and then as Thomas Mortimer & Son from 1807 to 1824. The third son, Jackson Mortimer, born in 1762, was apprenticed to Thomas Allport, Gunmaker, in Birmingham. He was in partnership with his son-in-law, John Blanch, as Mortimer and Blanch from 1811 to 1812 and then as Jackson, Mortimer and Son. He was appointed Gunmaker Extraordinary to the Prince of Wales in 1871.

Thomas Jackson Mortimer was born on 20 November 1781. He was the son of Thomas Mortimer. He was apprenticed to his father in 1795, free of the Farriers Company in 1807, and took livery in 1811. From 1806 to 1816 he worked in partnership with his father as T. Mortimer & Son and then had his own business at 21 St. James’s Street, London from 1818 to 1821 and he was Gunsmith-in-Ordinary to George IV.

Thomas Elsworth Mortimer was born on 9 September 1807 in London. He was the son of Thomas Jackson Mortimer and Elizabeth (nee Elsworth). When Thomas Jackson Mortimer died in 1833 his business was taken over by his widow, Elizabeth, and Thomas Elsworth. It continued to trade as T. E. Mortimer until 1840 but in 1834 T E Mortimer had moved to open a business under his own name at 78 Princes Street, Edinburgh and later moved to 97 George Street in 1840. He was joined by his son, Thomas Alfred Clark Mortimer, and the firm continued to trade under the name of Mortimer & Son, from 86 George Street, their address from 1854.

They later acquired the old established business of Joseph Harkom and in 1938, Mortimer & Son amalgamated with John Dickson & Son.