Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1873 - Matching Serial No Q 15217 British Edged Weapons ) was a term colloquially

) was a term colloquially applied to all rifles during the first half of the 20th century

Size is approximately US 7 (55/56cm)

Serial No 154831 with a legible SWP cartouche

German letterhead

Germany on 7 December 1944

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1873 - Matching Serial No Q 15217 British Edged Weapons ) was a term colloquiallyOriginal 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 war of 1870 71. In fairness to the French, the defeat was due to Napoleon III's foolhardiness in allowing himself to get captured at the Battle of Sedan and the show was then over. The Chassepot rifle of 1866 was a single shot bolt action rifle and