Original German / French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Converted to Carbine - Dated 1873 Snider Rifle No Magazines exported outside the

No Magazines exported outside the USA

Just an excellent reproduction of excellent quality

these are styled after the US GI WW2 Army Helmet

- Original unattached English made Flintlock lock with an early 1800s date

these were intended as "Cargo Parachutes" just like were used at Arnhem in "A Bridge Too Far"

Original German / French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Converted to Carbine - Dated 1873 Snider Rifle No Magazines exported outside theOriginal 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 Franco Prussian war of 1870 71. After the defeat the Prussians removed great quantities of the new French Needle fire rifles, which were a big improvement over the Dreyse Needle fire rifle, the Prussian equivalent that had been used during the war.