Original French Fusil Modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by St. Étienne dated 1871 - Matching Serial L 79569 French Machine Guns A fine maker marked gold

A fine maker marked gold wound badge with original LDO-marked case box by Fritz Zimmermann of Stuttgart

Any malfunction could result in death or in equipment loss

and another became a labor leader in the longshoreman industry

aiding in the preservation of the poster

and on 29 April 1945

Original French Fusil Modèle 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle by St. Étienne dated 1871 - Matching Serial L 79569 French Machine Guns A fine maker marked goldOriginal 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