Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No 39226 German Helmets & Hats On the night of 24

On the night of 24 August

On a typical Nile Dirk the grip pommel shows the head of a Crocodile but this special unique dirk has an entirely solid brass grip of a complete crocodile

Head width: 7”

which acted as a waterproof jacket for the mine

After D-Day

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No 39226 German Helmets & Hats On the night of 24Original Item: Only One Available. Despite the fact that the French needle fire Chassepot rifle was far superior to the needle fire Prussian Dreyse rifle, the French took a swift and decisive beating in the war of 1870 71. In fairness to the French, the defeat was due to Napoleon III's foolhardiness in allowing himself to get captured at the Battle of Sedan and the show was then over. The Chassepot rifle of 1866 was a single shot bolt action rifle and