Imagine yourself a Victorian gentleman walking through a dark alley of East London and a man with a potato sack for a mask springs out of nowhere with a pistol in hand and you don't know what he's about to do next. This is where the pistol cane would come in. The pistol cane would come in different formats: the gun itself being the handle of the cane for a gentleman to detach and fire quickly, or the long barreled pistol cane which only required a pulling back of the cane trigger and pointing the tip of the cane for firing and another being an attached pistol itself crafted on the cane handle. In an age of sneak thieves and highwaymen, a gentleman always had to be prepared and many of the wealthy had gunsmiths blend their walking canes with a fully functioning pistol. They varied from one shot mechanisms to a pepper-box pistol with multiple firing potential. These types of pistol canes were not in mass produce and depended very much on the person commissioning a cane pistol according to their specifications. This type of weapon was great for travelling business who were not familiar with a particular area or a gentleman strolling through London with his lady.
Cane pistols are sought after by gun collectors worldwide and you would be lucky if you could find a genuine cane pistol that would still fire today.
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