Original U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Cut-Down M1873 Rifle Socket Bayonet with U.S. Scabbard & M1887 Hanger MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock housed in a relatively smaller

housed in a relatively smaller leather case with a nickel-finished handset and spare mouthpiece with leather straps to attach to the head

which is the correct clasp-combination for the 2nd Division

All three mines are contained in the original wood transit frame with locking claps which is marked in white stenciled pain on the top SMi-35

The glossy upper surface has developed an attractive pattern of checking and crazing

Original U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Cut-Down M1873 Rifle Socket Bayonet with U.S. Scabbard & M1887 Hanger MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock housed in a relatively smallerOriginal Item: Only One Available. The model 1873 "Trapdoor" Springfield was the first standard issue breech loading rifle adopted by the United States Army. The gun, in both full length and carbine versions, was widely used in subsequent battles against the American Indians. It was the weapon used, in its carbine form, by the troopers of the 7th Cavalry that met their fate at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. The model 1873 was the fifth