Mechanical Spear

[Queequeg]

Originally Posted by SwordsAntiqueWeapons

There were walking canes commonly referred to as flick sticks that operate in this manner, being gravity activated, also swagger sticks and very short sticks 12" in length.
These are mostly Victorian period but they may be older and based on an older idea as the mechanism is simple...Catherine Dike's book is in storage so I can not refer to it at this point in time.

Gavin

Flick sticks! Google has some interesting images of those. Thanks for that term.