Original U.S. Springfield Trapdoor M1873 Rifle Socket Bayonet with NGP Pennsylvania National Guard Scabbard MG 42 Ammo Storage The bottoms of both barrels

The bottoms of both barrels are marked with a maker mark of CROWN / IS

before it was issued

Despite the use of octal base vacuum tubes

was a British soldier captured during the Second World War who rescued Jews from Auschwtz and claimed he had smuggled himself into the camp for one night

so it may have been found to be too small at some point

Original U.S. Springfield Trapdoor M1873 Rifle Socket Bayonet with NGP Pennsylvania National Guard Scabbard MG 42 Ammo Storage The bottoms of both barrelsOriginal Item: Only One Available. The model 1873 "Trapdoor" Springfield was the first standard issue breech loading rifle adopted by the United States Army. The gun, in both full length and carbine versions, was widely used in subsequent battles against the American Indians. It was the weapon used, in its carbine form, by the troopers of the 7th Cavalry that met their fate at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. The model 1873 was the fifth