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Photo From: Mark Freburg - Album: Handguns--Classic or Antique

Description: The Seventrees ASP of Paris Theodore, inventor, CIA man, and raconteur, was built in the early 1970s from the standard Smith & Wesson Model 39-2, and turned it into a covert operative's concealment pistol extraordinaire. The sight was a one-piece affair perched atop the slide and called a Guttersnipe. It was a long trough, painted bright yellow on the inside, and narrowed from rear to front. The stocks were transparent Lexan, the stuff from which we make "bulletproof" glass. The ASP featured probably the first "melt job" ever, and was surely the inspiration for the "ultimate melt job," usually credited to Clark Custom Guns in the modern age. Paris Theodore did it decades earlier. If the gun looks familiar, it was anything but in the 70s when the general public started to become aware of it. To our eyes today, sure--S&W wanted a piece of that pie and introduced their own first compact pistol in the early 1980s, if I recall correctly. Today we can see the Models 3913 and 6906 when we look at and ASP, but back then, wow! Uploaded: 8/30/2013 by Mark Freburg