CIRCA 1835

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A Very Rare Cased Budding Patent Percussion Walking-Stick Gun/Rifle
Circa 1835
With 24-bore smooth barrel and 40-bore rifled barrel, the latter cut with four wide grooves, each of browned twist, and each made to screw into the action, and with central nipple at the rear, enclosed rounded brass action retaining faint traces of silvering and engraved with a pointer and two cock pheasants, each in a landscape, and signed 'Budding Maker' on the top above an engraved grotesque mask, blued combined cocking lever and trigger, blued iron trigger-guard, and attachable figured walnut shoulder stock with chequered grip and engraved white-metal butt-cap: now in an associated mahogany case with some accessories including brass mould for a conical bullet, London proof marks
26in. (66cm.) and 12 3/8in. (31.4cm.) barrels

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

E. Budding of Thrup Mill, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, a scientist who invented the lawnmower and made improvements used in wool mills, is better known for his pepperbox revolvers, of which some 50 were produced (see lot 155)

No other Budding gun appears to be recorded, nor does there appear to be a record of its patent
The combined cocking lever and trigger is the same as that used on Budding pepperboxes of the first and second models

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