Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Bayonet- Cleaned and Complete Condition French Field Equipment and quick reloading

and quick reloading

Our dummy display rounds are made from actual fired cartridge cases with replacement bullets

92mm MG 34

BUREAU OF ALCOHOL

as it was too heavy for general use

Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Bayonet- Cleaned and Complete Condition French Field Equipment and quick reloadingOriginal Item: Jacob Snider, an American from New York, developed this breech loading system for the P 1853 Enfield, the most prolific imported Percussion rifle in use by both the North and South during the U. S. Civil War. When the British Board of Ordnance appointed a Select Committee in 1864 the Snider system was swiftly adopted with the first breech loaders being issued in 1865 to British forces. Improved in 1867 by the use of Colonel Boxer's