Original U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Model 1884 Rod Bayonet Rifle with Figured Walnut Stock - Serial No 532667 Category_Blunderbuss • Emergency parachute ration

• Emergency parachute ration

[4] This French-colonial force had been established six months earlier and included hundreds of soldiers of color in addition to white soldiers and some black slaves

and bears the ORIGINAL EICKHORN 1935-1941 pattern Squirrel logo etched into the blade near the hilt

Made by JOHANN GEORG ERTTEL the Elder who was born in 1700 in Dresden and worked in Amsterdam until his death in 1764

Original U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Model 1884 Rod Bayonet Rifle with Figured Walnut Stock - Serial No 532667 Category_Blunderbuss • Emergency parachute rationOriginal Item: Only One available. The U. S. breech loading Springfield "trapdoor" rifle was introduced in 1873 in . 45 70 caliber. Basically it was the rifle the U. S. Army used to open the West and Springfield trapdoor carbines were used by Custer's Cavalry at the massacre at The Little Big Horn. This excellent example has the breech block marking: MODEL 1884 In 1884 the integral Round Rod Bayonet was introduced, which could double as a cleaning