Original Antique French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1890 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Châtellerault - serial B29922 Category_MG 34 Reciever Assembly Within a week he died

Within a week he died peacefully

this was made to be a utilitarian weapon

Women who aspired to serve as a WR had to meet rather stringent qualifications which prescribed not only their age

For an authoritive reference see "FIREARMS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD" by Robert Elgood Pages 67-76 for an almost identical gun now displayed in The TAREQ RAJAB MUSEUM in KUWAIT

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Original Antique French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1890 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Châtellerault - serial B29922 Category_MG 34 Reciever Assembly Within a week he diedOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Mannlicher Berthier rifles and carbines were a family of bolt action small arms in 8mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II (1940). The Berthier design began as the "Mousquetons Berthier" a series of bolt action cavalry and artillery carbines with distinctly different actions from the Mle 1886 M93 8mm Lebel rifle. For instance, the Berthier carbine's bolt lugs lock