Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Eight Groove Barrel - Excellent Bore Category_Flintlock Pistols • Wool tunic in very

• Wool tunic in very good condition

Francis’s younger brother

The cutting blade measures 6

the barrel tang marked M-1815 and has a brass pan

feed system was operated through the horizontally pivoting pin / levers system by recoiling barrel group

Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Eight Groove Barrel - Excellent Bore Category_Flintlock Pistols • Wool tunic in veryOriginal Item: Jacob Snider, an American from New York, developed this breech loading system for the P 1853 Enfield, the most prolific imported Percussion rifle in use by both the North and South during the U. S. Civil War. When the British Board of Ordnance appointed a Select Committee in 1864 the Snider system was swiftly adopted with the first breech loaders being issued in 1865 to British forces. Improved in 1867 by the use of Colonel Boxer's