Original U.S. Navy W.J. Jenks Side Hammer "Mule-Ear" First Pattern Breech Loading Percussion Carbine MG 42 Accessories It depicts the scales with

It depicts the scales with the firm's initials

63" - 25 bore

so it may have been a European blade that was repurposed

82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions under the control of XVIII Airborne Corps

The can measures approximately 5 1/2" x 5" x 3 3/4"

Original U.S. Navy W.J. Jenks Side Hammer "Mule-Ear" First Pattern Breech Loading Percussion Carbine MG 42 Accessories It depicts the scales withOriginal Item: Only One Available. From the Civil War era this is one of the hardest Carbines to find, and this is indeed only the second example we have ever had of a W. J. Jenks "Mule Ear" Carbine. First developed in the early 1840s, the U. S. Navy ordered these in various different configurations, both rifled and smoothbore. Access to the breech is accomplished by lifting bolt lever, and a paper cartridge would be inserted and rammed forward when