Original French Tabatière Breech Loading Rifle Converted to Shotgun and Marked to a U.S. Indian Agency c.1880 MG 34 indicating either manufacture or use

indicating either manufacture or use at the Training Audiovisual Support Center located at Fort Sill in Oklahoma

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Lord Tennyson's narrative poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854)

Probably the best Japanese WWII gas mask that we've ever had

Original French Tabatière Breech Loading Rifle Converted to Shotgun and Marked to a U.S. Indian Agency c.1880 MG 34 indicating either manufacture or useOriginal Item: One of a Kind. This is a truly interesting item, originating as a French breech loading military rifle withdrawn from service and then converted to a 12 gauge shotgun carbine intended for the third World market. This conversion took place in Lige, Belgium, as indicated by the E L G * in an oval "Tower of Lige" proof marks on the breech and barrel. However, instead of ending up in Africa, this example ended up in the United States, and