Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Belgian Reworked Serial No 16920 Antique Remingtons This is an excellent must

This is an excellent must have collection

and resorted and repacked the requested supplies onto rail cars for daily transportation to each division's railhead

On one side is a substantial brass handles which runs to the bottom of the keg under the iron hoops

instruction pamphlet and original cardboard box with labels

John Jones and Son worked in Cornhill

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Belgian Reworked Serial No 16920 Antique Remingtons This is an excellent mustOriginal Item: Only One Available. Despite the fact that the French needle fire Chassepot rifle was far superior to the needle fire Prussian Dreyse rifle, the French took a swift and decisive beating in the war of 1870 71. In fairness to the French, the defeat was due to Napoleon III's foolhardiness in allowing himself to get captured at the Battle of Sedan and the show was then over. The Chassepot rifle of 1866 was a single shot bolt action rifle and