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Lot 159

A 15-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistol
By John Smart Of London, Early 18th Century

24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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A 15-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistol
By John Smart Of London, Early 18th Century

With russet slightly swamped three-stage barrel (areas of light pitting) retaining traces of engraving at the rear of the breech, grooved foliate engraved tang, signed rounded lock with slender raised border, cock and steel en suite, moulded figured full stock (chipped beneath the tail of the lock, fore-end partly replaced and the butt, broken through, chequered during the pistol's working life) with drop-shaped apron around the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate scroll side-plate, foliate escutcheon engraved with owner's mirror monogram, pommel with engraved spurs and a flower-head centred on the stepped cap, moulded trigger-guard with trefoil finial, baluster ramrod-pipes, and iron-capped wooden ramrod, London proof marks and maker's mark
26.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 11 May 2016, lot 387
The Penrose Collection

The maker is most probably John 1 Smart who was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1705. In 1715 he is recorded as gunmaker 'against Norfolk Street in the Strand'

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