A CASED 140 BORE AIR CANE RIFLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY A CASED 140 BORE AIR CANE RIF…

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A CASED 140 BORE AIR CANE RIFLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

A CASED 140 BORE AIR CANE RIFLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY with blackened body fitted with button trigger, multi-groove rifled copper alloy sleeve, threaded gun-stock butt covered with brown leather: in early fitted case lined in green baize, the lid with facsimile trade label for E. M. Reilly & Co. , with pump, gang bullet mould for six bullets, and wad cutter (rusted), 52.0 cm barrel

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A CASED 140 BORE AIR CANE RIFLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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