Original British P-1866 Snider Mk.II** Rifle Converted to Carbine - dated 1868 Category_MG 42 Accessories Manufactured with time and labor

Manufactured with time and labor saving square pommel

like many great inventors

Movement to Falmouth

On the left side of the brass pistol frame a sliding bar exposes the hidden powder pan for the second shot once the first one has been expended

Early production examples such as this one have ribbed bakelite grips

Original British P-1866 Snider Mk.II** Rifle Converted to Carbine - dated 1868 Category_MG 42 Accessories Manufactured with time and laborOriginal Item: Only One Available. This just came out of the attic after a hundred years of storage, together with a couple of hundred other guns. This carbine is 100% all British manufacture, starting life in the early 1860s as a . 577 caliber Enfield or Snider 3 or 2 band rifle. It looks to have used parts from several rifles, so the history is not entirely clear. The lock is plate stamped "CROWN" over V. R. and 1868 ENFIELD, indicating manufacture