Lot 503
A 90-Bore Percussion Over-And-Under Pocket PistolBy William 9 Smith, Princes Str.t., London, Circa 1820
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,020 inc. premium
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By William 9 Smith, Princes Str.t., London, Circa 1820
By William 9 Smith, Princes Str.t., London, Circa 1820
Rebuilt from flintlock, with reblued sighted border engraved barrels made in a single block of octagonal section (minor rust patination), signed in full along the top flat and decorated with a coiled foliated monster along each side, foliate engraved tang, border engraved locks each signed in full and decorated with foliage, foliate scroll engraved dolphin hammers each working on a blued external mainspring, safety-catches, finely chequered slightly flattened figured rounded butt with silver butt-cap housing a threaded steel ramrod, foliate engraved trigger-guard, and vacant silver escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
7.5 cm. barrels
7.5 cm. barrels
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Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour..., 24 November 2010, lot 301
William 9 Smith, father of the famous Samuel and Charles, is recorded at 59 Princes Street, Leicester Square, London between 1817 and 1820 and at 64 Princes Street between 1821 and 1824. He was appointed Gunmaker-in Ordinary to the Prince Regent in 1817 and to George IV in 1820
