Original German Dreyse Zündnadel Needle Fire Pioneer Short Rifle from Kingdom of Württemberg dated 1870 / 71 Snider Rifle while the reverse has a

while the reverse has a very minor dent

The revolver is fitted with lovely red / black swirl color checkered hard rubber grips

We have had very few Royal Navy caps in the past

This is a high quality private purchase sword manufactured by the firm of G

See GERMAN BAYONETS VOLUME III pages 155 -157 by J

Original German Dreyse Zündnadel Needle Fire Pioneer Short Rifle from Kingdom of Württemberg dated 1870 / 71 Snider Rifle while the reverse has aOriginal Item: Only One Available. These are really hard to find! In 1836 JOHANN NIKOLAUS VON DREYSE designed this breech loading cartridge system while the rest of the world were still using muzzleloaders. These were called Zndnadelgewehr, which translates roughly as "ignition needle rifle". These were adopted by the Prussian Military in 1841, and called the leichtes Perkussionsgewehr Modell 1841("light percussion rifle Model 1841"), with the name