Original 19th Century Japanese Type 18 Murata 11mm Single Shot Infantry Rifle - Serial 99026 Iraq This is an excellent condition

This is an excellent condition naval-issue katana

T-5’s Hartshone and Bertrand

The side is named to Lt

Interestingly in the patch box we found an old News Paper Ad from the Shotgun News dated July 1st 1969 showing this very rifle

Original 19th Century Japanese Type 18 Murata 11mm Single Shot Infantry Rifle - Serial 99026 Iraq This is an excellent conditionOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Murata rifle ( Murata jy) was was designed by Major Murata Tsuneyoshi, and was the first locally produced Japanese service rifle. It was adopted in 1880 as the Meiji Type 13 Murata single shot rifle. The 13 referred to the adoption date, the year 13 in the Meiji period according to the Japanese calendar, and these were marked (juu san 13) on the receiver. This was Japan's initial breech loading Rifle completely