Original British Napoleonic 3rd Model Brown Bess Flintlock Musket Marked to the 79th Regiment of Foot MG 42 Mounts Fred Spandoni – New Haven

Fred Spandoni – New Haven

It is unclear just how this was construed as an anti-Fascist symbol

This magazine was made in 1943 at another factory of Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in Werk Graz

1944 just after the "Go Devils" crossed the Meuse River on their way through the Siegfried Line

though it could definitely be re polished

Original British Napoleonic 3rd Model Brown Bess Flintlock Musket Marked to the 79th Regiment of Foot MG 42 Mounts Fred Spandoni – New HavenOriginal Item: Only One Available. From the British Napoleonic Collection I. M. A. purchased in England in 2014, this is a lovely third Pattern Brown Bess, with the 39" barrel adopted in 1796. Also known as the "India Pattern", it was the standard Musket of the line during 1815, the time of the Battle of Waterloo. This example has a lovely valnut stock, which still retains the "bannister rail" butt stock, a feature that was basically done away with