Thomas Devine: Gunmaker.

Thomas Devine/Divine.

Gunsmith

Dublin

1768 trades directory entry for Thomas Divine. 

Trading dates and addresses.

1767-1783	3 Abbey Street.
1784-1803	194 Abbey Street.

Thomas Divine sideplate showing bridled pan and frizzen pivot activating directly on 
spring. c.1785

Proof marks consisting of Crowned "P", "Harp" and "P" 

c.1785

1803 trades directory final entry for Thomas Devine.

Clarke	Nicholas		35 Capel Street
Devine	Thomas		194 Abbey Street
Devereux	Michael		3 Blackall Row
Dobson	James		32 Skinner Row
Eames	Elizabeth		1 Duke Street
Edwards	Thomas		60 Abbey Street
Fowler	Thomas		14 Capel Street
Gray	John		1 Bride Street
Haskey	Thomas		16 Upper Ormond Quay
Hutchinson	Michael		8 Dame Street
Mc Dermott	Farrell		2 Abbey Street
Meredith	Charles		16 Fishamble Street
Muley	Daniel		28 Parliament Street
Pattison	Thomas		1 Clarence Street. Nth Strand
Quinlan	Daniel		10 Werburgh Street
Rigby	John		19 Suffolk Street
Rumbold	William		17 Lwr Ormond Quay
Silk	John		195 Abbey Street
Tomlinson	Robert		123 Capel Street
Trulock	Thomas		50 Barrack Street
Wheeler	Oliver		5 Gt Ship Street
Willett	Robert		23  Eustace Street

Thomas Divine/Devine traded for the period C.1767-1803.

His name is listed with both spellings throughout the directory entries. 

He married Miss Sally Wainwright in 1766 and is noted in the Freeman Journal.

Thomas Devine originally listed by M.S. Dudley Westropp, MRIA. 

Journal Arms & Armour Society, 1957.

Vol.11. No 1.

Our sincere thanks to the owner of the above pistol for photography and permission to publish.

Dave Stroud ramrodantiques.co.uk