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Daryl, not sure if this helps, but the only IGC listing for a J Smyth is:
Name J Smyth
City/Town King William's Town
State/Region/Province Cape
Country South Africa
Trade Gunsmith, Importer & Dealer
Dates c.1883-1884
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1894 the workshop and shop at 13 Blackwellgate were destroyed in an explosion and Smythe moved to 12 Horsemarket Well he would wouldn't he? Presumably he took the long route; a mile up, two hundred yards to the East and a mile down. Eug
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Thank you, very kind. Mine's a pint
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Old Mikey needs a trip to the H&H or Churchill shooting school- a lesson in gun handling manners. his fore-finger on his right hand in through the trigger guard, clearly seen- has to be resting o the front trigger-and the "bloody" gun is closed- a close gun is a loaded gun, at least that's what my grandfather, dad and uncles taught me.
The Bank Job- a recent Lionsgate Limey film with with Jason Statham- based on an actual heist in London- with a great opening scene with a nude Princess Margaret swimming in the Caribbean, don't remember any "bloody doors being blown off" as the culprits used a tunnel and a oxy-lance to cut through the floor of the bank vault- same scenario as the earlier Mike Caine movie to which you made a reference?
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I'm sorry, you haven't seen The Italian Job? The original 1960s film? With proper Mini Cooper S's? Good grief, I thought everyone had seen that, it's a classic.
No oxyacetylene lances in that one!
Do, please watch the film. You'll enjoy it, I promise.
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Tim , thank you. There is no address on the gun, but being retailed in South Africa is sure a possibility. I found the gun in Canada. Proofmarks are Birmingham.
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My Dad, My Uncle, Scots whisky, dynamite.....Got some wonderful stories....
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The Smythe guns I have seen have been plain and only borderline engraved . Suggesting that Birmingham "in the white " barreled actions were finished by Smythe with as little outlay as possible . I Have actually met a lady who was Smythes granddaughter but said there were no family archives relating to the business . Living in the North of England I did see a lot of guns bearing the names of local gunmakers and I have to say that I have never seen a Smythe signed gun that was anything but a basic A & D compared to guns signed by other gunmakers of the region .
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Dan Pawlak was killed in a gunpowder factory explosion here in America when his Pyrodex factory blew up in 1977. He was co-inventor of Pyrodex. http://www.chuckhawks.com/blackpowder_pyrodex.htm SRH
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