Original U.S. Pennsylvania Long Rifle made with Named British Percussion Trade Lock - circa 1840 Schwarzlose MG Commanded 77th Company Imperial Yeomanry

Commanded 77th Company Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War for which he received the Queen's Medals with five battle honors

and a few splits

The gun is marked on rear of receiver forward of rear sight:

receivers had to be scrapped as the existing drill holes and boring rendered them unfit for conversion

1864 for three-year service under the command of Colonel Orlando Charles Risdon

Original U.S. Pennsylvania Long Rifle made with Named British Percussion Trade Lock - circa 1840 Schwarzlose MG Commanded 77th Company Imperial YeomanryOriginal Item. Only One Available. This comes from our big Storage purchase, a really nice Pennsylvania Long Rifle, with a very substantial heavily rifled barrel about . 39 bore caliber. Comes with set trigger and is constructed in a full length to the muzzle tiger stripped wood stock, probably of the readily available maple from the area. The rifle features all brass mounts of butt plate, trigger guard, side plate, three ramrod pipes and the nose