Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1868 - Matching Serial No 33103 Sterling SMG Most are marked:

Most are marked:

Polished steel construction and decorated with brass rosettes around small brim with brass plume holder on the rear

whose tactical objectives were to secure the bridges and allow a rapid advance by armored units into Northern Germany

fitted as a replacement probably 200 years later in the early 1800s

It is missing the top "rib" due to the nature of the replica receiver

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1868 - Matching Serial No 33103 Sterling SMG Most are marked:Original 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