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Chassepot model 1866 11 mm caliber cavalry carbine,...

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Chassepot model 1866 11 mm caliber cavalry carbine, case marked Manufacture Impériale St Etienne Mle 1866, 680 mm rifled barrel (dirty but scratches present) dated S.1870 au thonnerre, frog missing, walnut stock with stamped MI and dated March 1870, stamped brass fittings, buttplate stamped 12.C (12e régiment de chasseurs à cheval, recreated in 1825 and disbanded in 1931), traces of use on the wood, oxidation, LT 1175 mm, ramrod and breech numbered, n° F 1707, France Second Empire period, category D § e.