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1870s Antique CHASSEPOT Bolt Action NEEDLEFIRE 11mm Caliber Rifle w/BAYONET Likely French Made Franco-Prussian War Period
Guns International #: 102045972 Seller's Inventory #: 217329
Category: Antique Rifles - Percussion - Single Shot Rifles - European
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Seller: AncestryGunsLLC
Company: Ancestry Guns LLC
Member Since: 11/3/16
State: Missouri
Zip: 65203
Country: United States
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Description:
1870s Antique CHASSEPOT Bolt Action NEEDLEFIRE 11mm Caliber Rifle w/BAYONET
Likely French Made Franco-Prussian War Period
Here we present an antique Chassepot Bolt Action, Needle-Fire Rifle, made circa the early 1870s. These were interesting times for France in 1871, having just lost the Franco-Prussian War, the Second Empire came to a close with Napoleon III captured in battle and the second-ever elected French President Adolphe Thiers signing an armistice with Prussia. Paris was taken by radical socialists calling themselves the Paris Commune. It took over two months to put them down.
This rifle gets its name from the inventor, Antoine Alphonse Chassepot. His third iteration, featuring the needle fire system similar to that of the Prussian Dreyse, was adopted by the French military, and subsequently used in the Franco-Prussian War. This was the very beginning of the bolt action rifle era, and soon virtually every military the world over would be armed with long arms along these lines. The Mauser brothers were on the cusp of making their appearance internationally as this small arms race between France and Germany heated up. The Prussians, the victors of the nearly year-long conflict, would go on to replace their needle-fire, bolt action rifle, the Dreyse, with the Mauser Model 1871/84. The French would update the Model 1866 to accept metallic cartridges and also adopt the new Gras in 1874, the Lebel in 1886. This would continue through the Great War and beyond.
The overall condition is good. Strong functioning action, the needle is missing. Bright, nicely rifled bore. Solid stock with an average amount of wear (minor scuffs and dings). Clear markings. Mixed numbers. “ST. ETIENNE’ and “1873” marked bayonet. Both the bayonet and sling are in good shape.
Barrel is 31-1/2 inches.
Caliber: 11mm Chassepot
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$2200
#217329
SOLD
Antique: Yes