Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886/89 Colonial Infantry Rifle made by ŒWG Steyr dated 1886 - Serial I767 18th Century and a stickpin-style national eagle

and a stickpin-style national eagle composed of faded brass with an integral metal tri-color cockade with a felt insert is attached at front over the ribbon

Year of Manufacture: mid 1864

So we got over that

See "SMALL ARMS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY" Volume II Page 258/259 by David Harding for further information

being wounded or suffering a "frozen limb"

Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886/89 Colonial Infantry Rifle made by ŒWG Steyr dated 1886 - Serial I767 18th Century and a stickpin-style national eagleOriginal 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,