Original U.S. Civil War Import Austrian M1854 Lorenz .58 Caliber Percussion Rifle-Musket with Rare Long Range Sight & Correct No-Cheekpiece Stock - Dated 1861 Category_MG 34 Ammo Storage plus a Japanese battle poem

plus a Japanese battle poem

This is an outstanding research project for someone to undertake

Which involved rushing a German machine gun nest capturing over a hundred German soldiers and killing 23 soldiers

from the rugged frontiers of India and Afghanistan to colonial garrisons across Africa and Asia

This example is a real treasure as the hilt is not constructed from the later war aluminum

Original U.S. Civil War Import Austrian M1854 Lorenz .58 Caliber Percussion Rifle-Musket with Rare Long Range Sight & Correct No-Cheekpiece Stock - Dated 1861 Category_MG 34 Ammo Storage plus a Japanese battle poemOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an outstanding and historically significant example of an Austrian Model 1854 Lorenz Percussion Rifle Musket, a weapon that was imported in massive numbers during the American Civil War and became one of the most important foreign arms used during the conflict. Unlike the many Lorenz rifles later imported as surplus after the war, this example has all the correct characteristics of one of the rifles brought