Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886 Infantry Rifle made by ŒWG Steyr dated 1886 - Serial C479 Japanese Replica Roosevelt ordered the US Navy

Roosevelt ordered the US Navy to design a small anti-submarine vessel that could be built quickly in small civilian boatyards

and a nice Kashira (end cap)

and by 1806 when the Napoleonic Wars were underway

Retired Colonel Julia E

It comes with complete original leather trim and liner

Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886 Infantry Rifle made by ŒWG Steyr dated 1886 - Serial C479 Japanese Replica Roosevelt ordered the US NavyOriginal Item: One one Available. In 1886 ALFRED VON KROPATSCHEK designed an 8mm rimmed cartridge rifle that became the fore runner to the French LEBEL. Known as the 1886 Kropatschek Rifle it's big customer was PORTUGAL. Production lasted from 1886 until 1898, however many saw service in the First World War and later in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's. Kropatschek's rifles used a tubular magazine (constructed of nickel plated steel) of his design,