Original Southern Russian Black Sea Heavily Decorated Percussion Converted Carbine c. 1820 U.S. Military Maps The area around the cap

The area around the cap lock nipple has a lot of powder burn

It also retains the correct short original ladder back sight

Meine Ehre heißt Treue (My honor is loyalty) is crisp with about 40% of the factory blackening is in the black letter fonts in the backgrounds

Gas was employed primarily on the Western Front: the static

northern Luzon

Original Southern Russian Black Sea Heavily Decorated Percussion Converted Carbine c. 1820 U.S. Military Maps The area around the capOriginal item: One of a kind. Here we have a nice example of the typical carbine used in Southern Russia near the Black sea. It is in very nice "attic fresh" condition, and looks to have been hanging on a wall or something similar for quite some time. This carbine, which has a hanger ring on the left side, may have been used on horseback, or for another purpose where dropping it was a real possibility. Originally made as a flintlock, as indicated by