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Lot 228Ф,Y
An Unusual 32-Bore Under-Hammer Riding Crop Gun, A 54-Bore Breech-Loading Air Cane, And Three Other ItemsAll 19th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn Unusual 32-Bore Under-Hammer Riding Crop Gun, A 54-Bore Breech-Loading Air Cane, And Three Other Items
All 19th Century
All 19th Century
The first with sighted barrel and action painted brown overall (some loss of paint), the muzzle with bamboo plug for the tapering plaited leather whip, folding trigger, and brass grip cast in the round as a stylised horse's head; the second in two sections painted black (loss of paint overall), the sighted lower section with button trigger (loading aperture cover missing), the threaded brass cap (ramrod missing) over a rifled threaded brass barrel-sleeve, the upper section forming the reservoir with dark horn knob; the last comprising a 17-bore under-hammer gun with twist sighted barrel (some pitting overall, threaded grip and butt missing), Birmingham proof marks, a sword cane, the leather-covered grip and scabbard over pruned wood (some wear), and a walking cane with swelling ivory grip carved in the round with a male figure giving a child a piggyback (child's head missing), malacca cane shaft, and tapering bone terminal (5)
The first 46 cm. barrel
The first 46 cm. barrel
Footnotes
J.P. Hubbard of Birmingham and London is known to have made walking-stick guns and whip pistols incorporating John Day's British Patent No. 4861 of 1823








