Description
Full details of the very rare Pattern "A" Musket can be found on Pages 97-101 of Volume 2 of David Harding's wonderful Book "SMALLARMS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY 1600-1856" published by Foresight Books in 1997
and was the successor type to the larger Colt Third Model Dragoon horse pistol
the Aid Station was bombed by German aircraft with two direct hits being scored on the Station itself
fully cleaned with a partly bright finish
The plastic butt cap is in great shape
Original German WWI M1898 n/A GEW 98 Bayonet by Simson & Co. dated 1903 with Steel Scabbard - Saxony Marked MG 34 Feed Assembly Full details of the veryOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1898 with the new Mauser bolt action infantry rifle the military adopted this long bayonet, the Seitengewehr (Sidearm) M1898. This longer bayonet gave an Infantryman the ability to bring a Cavalryman down from his horse, due to the bayonets long reach. Of course Cavalry was soon becoming a thing of the past and these long bayonets were being surpassed by different and shorter versions. At the start of WWI in 1914