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John 1 Smart was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1705, and is recorded as gunmaker, 'against Norfolk Street in the Strand' in 1715
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BY JOHN SMART, LONDON, CIRCA 1705
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A Fine 44-Bore Flintlock Pocket Pistol
By John Smart, London, circa 1705
With turn-off cannon barrel engraved with a band of foliage at the rear, the signed breech engraved with a band of beadwork, foliate engraved tang, signed foliate engraved rounded lock, engraved cock and steel, moulded globose highly figured rootwood butt, iron mounts, pierced and chiselled side-plate, flat pommel engraved with a Tudor rose, and plain iron trigger-guard with foliate finial, in fine condition throughout, London proof marks
7¼in. (18.4cm.)
By John Smart, London, circa 1705
With turn-off cannon barrel engraved with a band of foliage at the rear, the signed breech engraved with a band of beadwork, foliate engraved tang, signed foliate engraved rounded lock, engraved cock and steel, moulded globose highly figured rootwood butt, iron mounts, pierced and chiselled side-plate, flat pommel engraved with a Tudor rose, and plain iron trigger-guard with foliate finial, in fine condition throughout, London proof marks
7¼in. (18.4cm.)
Special notice
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