Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Eight Groove Barrel - Excellent Bore Category_Flintlock Pistols The tunic features a tailor's

The tunic features a tailor's label that reads Eduard Sachs which is named to the officer and dated 1938

the barrel tang marked M-1815 and has a brass pan

by W Darrin Weaver

dismounted M1910 with Lift-the-Dot fasteners and no charger retaining straps

Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Eight Groove Barrel - Excellent Bore Category_Flintlock Pistols The tunic features a tailor'sOriginal 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