Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No 14248 German Army Heer ) of 119323 indicating manufacture

) of 119323 indicating manufacture in 1862 and bears the bears on the top of the barrel:

otherwise spring and follower removed

at the time an Axis power

IMA has purchased a small collection of these romantic items purchased by a devoted Grandfather for his first Grandson and buying him one a year until the Grandfather's death 23 years later

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No 14248 German Army Heer ) of 119323 indicating manufactureOriginal 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