ANTQUE BRITISH WALKING STICK PERCUSSION RIFLE.

A most unusual item which looks like a walking stick but which is actually a rifle, these guns were popular at the time for self defence and also by poachers and dates to about 1840. Wooden curved handle with metal fitting for a detachable shoulder stock. Long steel barrel with metal trigger and hinged fitting for the percussion cap and with a very small sight to the end of the barrel, the barrel also has proof marks. Exc++

Code: 37436