Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No F20947 Lanchester SMG Tool-roll style case

Tool-roll style case

this mine is totally inert and cannot be converted to an explosive device

a feat that would have been rare during the war too

A classic story for a classic item of great quality and beauty

compressing the obturator between the expansion plates

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No F20947 Lanchester SMG Tool-roll style caseOriginal 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