A scarce Lang’s patent 46 bore percussion walking stick gun/...

Hammer

£280

A scarce Lang’s patent 46 bore percussion walking stick gun/rifle, 36½” overall, screw off barrel 23”, pulling back on the “butt” exposes the action and permits the trigger to spring out, the action being cocked with a special tool (now missing), engraved “Patent J Lang, 7 Haymarket, London, No 138” and hinging down behind the action to form a shoulder stock; with interchangeable 40 bore rifle barrel with folding leaf rearsight, the whole painted to imitate bamboo. GC (the paint extensively chipped, the rifle barrel lacking a nipple). Plate 10