Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Bayonet- Cleaned and Complete Condition French Field Equipment and heavy steel soaking canister

and heavy steel soaking canister for the BFA

BUREAU OF ALCOHOL

Marked Carrier with belt fittings for standard U

The buttons are matched to a row of button holes

Dated- 1938

Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Bayonet- Cleaned and Complete Condition French Field Equipment and heavy steel soaking canisterOriginal Item: Jacob Snider, an American from New York, developed this breech loading system for the P 1853 Enfield, the most prolific imported Percussion rifle in use by both the North and South during the U. S. Civil War. When the British Board of Ordnance appointed a Select Committee in 1864 the Snider system was swiftly adopted with the first breech loaders being issued in 1865 to British forces. Improved in 1867 by the use of Colonel Boxer's