Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886 Infantry Rifle made by ŒWG Steyr dated 1886 with Bayonet & Scabbard - Serial LL12 Czech Militaria The scabbard was repainted black

The scabbard was repainted black at some point

Hutton shared many of his creations with America’s Escape and Evasion Section

He is recorded as a gunmaker and stone-bow maker at 48 cornhill between 1757 and 1779

In really great shape for a musket almost 250 years old

with the lands and grooves fully visible

Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886 Infantry Rifle made by ŒWG Steyr dated 1886 with Bayonet & Scabbard - Serial LL12 Czech Militaria The scabbard was repainted blackOriginal Item: One one Available. In 1886 ALFRED VON KROPATSCHEK designed an 8mm rimmed cartridge rifle that became the fore runner to the French LEBEL. Known as the 1886 Kropatschek Rifle it's big customer was PORTUGAL. Production lasted from 1886 until 1898, however many saw service in the First World War and later in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's. Kropatschek's rifles used a tubular magazine (constructed of nickel plated steel) of his design,