Original British Victorian Saddle Ring Percussion Cavalry Carbine by Enfield dated 1845 Category_Blunderbuss Referred to as "barter kits"

Referred to as "barter kits" for use in case of an emergency landing or bailout in an unfriendly or primitive area overseas

Vast fleets of B-24s and B-17s escorted by P-51Ds and long-range P-38Ls hit refineries in Germany and Czechoslovakia in late 1944 and early 1945

This involved the weapon carrier to manually pull the handle up

This regiment was based in Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt

This indicates 1943 manufacture by ERMA-Erfurter Maschinenfabrik B Geipel GmbH

Original British Victorian Saddle Ring Percussion Cavalry Carbine by Enfield dated 1845 Category_Blunderbuss Referred to as "barter kits"Original Item: Only One Available. Cavalry carbines such as this are very nice and now very hard to find. This fine example has a 26" smoothbore barrel in about . 71" caliber, and is fitted with double sliding saddle rings on a 6" ring bar mounted on the left hand side of the receiver. Intended for domestic use, this would have been used by one of the many cavalry units. It has all brass mounts: two ramrod pipes, trigger guard and butt plate. The