Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle- Cleaned and Complete Condition Hand Select:No Construction is either of brass

Construction is either of brass or plated steel

Original Item: Original red Scots Guards Officer's Parade tunic with full Gold embroidery on Collar

therefore on some of these Snider rifles it is not uncommon to find dates in the early 1850s and even the 1840s

that these were modified for use with the German WW2 LMG model MG 42

we also received their stock of replacement filter canisters

Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle- Cleaned and Complete Condition Hand Select:No Construction is either of brassOriginal 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