Original Swiss First Model 1889 Schmidt-Rubin Magazine Infantry Rifle with Leather Sling - Serial 74001 Display Guns & Parts Sets and the original tinted lenses

and the original tinted lenses are now in the packaging for the clear lenses

There was some variation among the "commercial" bayonets made

Used for parade purposes only

while retaining the nose art on the left-over P-40s

Year of Manufacture: 1895

Original Swiss First Model 1889 Schmidt-Rubin Magazine Infantry Rifle with Leather Sling - Serial 74001 Display Guns & Parts Sets and the original tinted lensesOriginal Item: Only One Available. The first Model Schmidt Rubin rifle was designed and approved in 1889, with production running between 1891 and 1897 at Eidgenoessische Waffenfabrik (Swiss Arms Factory), Bern, with a total production of about 212,000. This means that all model 1889 Schmidt Rubin rifles are pre 1899, and considered antique under Federal Law. As this is rifle serial number 112429, we estimate this rifle was produced in 1894 5. This