Product Details
W. W. GREENER
A RARE DEACTIVATED MARTINI-ACTION 'CEMENT GUN', serial no. 1404,
early 20th century, martini action with shortened stock with brass hooped handle to the rear, shortened 3 inch .22 barrel with four brass 'barrel' extensions (measuring between 28 3/4in. and 30in. each) and two brass frogmouth nozzles, one straight and one with 90 degree bend, in its fitted brass-cornered canvas case (blocking requiring adapting to accommodate non-dismountable barrel), with deactivation certificate
Provenance: Attributed to Leyton Greener, the 'cement gun', usually chambering .38 Blank, was designed as a solution to cracking in gasworks furnaces. In the process of making household gas from coal, the furnaces would often develop cracks in the fire bricks or cement. The 'cement gun' was designed as a way to effect repairs without the need to shut the furnaces down, with fresh cement packed into the splayed nozzles which could be fired at directly into the damaged areas from a safe distance. Examples have been known to have extensions reaching as far as thirty feet
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Estimate £300-500
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