Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Belgian Reworked Serial No 16920 Antique Remingtons New-Made Item: Quality Black Leather

New-Made Item: Quality Black Leather construction these are 7" x 6" x 2" Gunners tool kit cases

John Jones and Son worked in Cornhill

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

In 1878 the Francotte patent Martini system was granted utilizing a detachable mechanism typically fitted without a cocking indicator

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Belgian Reworked Serial No 16920 Antique Remingtons New-Made Item: Quality Black LeatherOriginal 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