Original U.S. Civil War Belgian Made British P-1853 Enfield 2-Band Rifled Musket with North Carolina Surcharge 17th Century It was activated 11 January

It was activated 11 January 1943 at Fort Benning

The magazine design also made for a reliable feed aided by both the magazine spring mechanism and gravity

mask bayonet receivers

which returned to the US to be readied for the Pacific

This indicates manufacture by Westfalische Aluminium Industrie

Original U.S. Civil War Belgian Made British P-1853 Enfield 2-Band Rifled Musket with North Carolina Surcharge 17th Century It was activated 11 JanuaryOriginal Item: Only One Available. Offered here is a very nice example of the Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle Musket as produced by the prolific gun trade in Lige, Belgium. The Lige gun trade had a long history of producing arms of previously established patterns to supplement the arms making capabilities of other nations. By the mid 19th century, the Lige arms trade had been producing gun parts to support the Birmingham & London gun trades for well over