Original French MLE 1866-74 Gras Infantry Converted Rifle Made in 1868 - Matching Serial G 5779 Price_$-050 - $200 or 56cm European

or 56cm European

The Ivory grip is very nicely matured in color and has no evidence of wire binding if it ever had it

Hauptmann Springer pushed one of the guards toward an American

T Hayne Chief of Staff at Headquarters 79th Division on the 6th of May 1919

They do not appear to have been made anytime recently

Original French MLE 1866-74 Gras Infantry Converted Rifle Made in 1868 - Matching Serial G 5779 Price_$-050 - $200 or 56cm EuropeanOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Fusil Gras Modle 1874 was a French service rifle of the 19th century. The first Gras rifles used by the French Army were a conversion to center fire of the Chassepot breech loading rifle by Colonel Basile Gras. This example was originally a needle fire Chassepot, the French ignition system introduced in 1866. It was a single shot bolt action rifle and was among the best of its kind at the type, being superior to