Description

King, J. [1770-1790]
Made screw barrel flintlock pocket pistols and brass barrel flintlock blunderbusses. Also flintlock muskets with Royal Cypher. Shop in London.
A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York.

KING, John 3, Apprentice to Henry Brind, 1750; turned over to William Shaw, 1751; free of the Goldsmiths Co., 1757. Silversmith, maker of silver gun furniture, regd. mark at Goldsmiths’ Hall, 1775-89. Similar marks appear on gun furniture as early as 1765.
Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA.