 Signed Etoille St Etienne Riding Crop Cane (8728)
I haven't seen it in any book or in Dike, but I'm a believer. The gun is 24" long with a 1' steel addition to make it a cane. Remove the lower piece and the leather riding crop end slides right in making it a riding crop gun. If you look closly at the riding crop end it is slotted on the side and made in brass. The hooks that cock the gun and pull out the shell look correct. Dike shows the Etoille in an advertisment with a sword and dates it 1910.
The only thing I can go by is the tooling on the crop end, which would take a complicated process to make. Looking at the barrel end it looks factory finished, and lastly what would be the purpose of making a gun of this length for any other reason.
Category: Gadget
Sub Category: Weapon
Listed: 2006-11-15 22:00:31
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