Original Rare U.S. Made British Contract Greene Patent Breech Loading Carbine with Maynard Tape Primer System Serial 824 - Professionally Refinished Magazines and a web suspension

and a web suspension

though the bayonet has been sharpened

Chaplain Officer’s Shoulder Boards are in matching grey

he is wearing medal ribbons underneath him reads 460th BG 761 BSQ

This is a summer flight suit and a size 38 Long

Original Rare U.S. Made British Contract Greene Patent Breech Loading Carbine with Maynard Tape Primer System Serial 824 - Professionally Refinished Magazines and a web suspensionOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a magnificent example of the very rare Greene Patent breech loading carbine. Mostly known for his early breech loading design involving an "underhammer" percussion cap, Lt. Colonel James D. Greene of Cambridge, Massachusetts also developed other early breech loading designs. One of these was this system, which utilized a breech that locked closed using two lugs 180 degrees apart, which had a barrel that would