Original Austrian 1840 Flintlock Saddle Carbine Converted to Percussion - later Sold to U.S. Market MG 34 Measuring 36" x 24" with

Measuring 36" x 24" with gold thread fringe it is constructed of substantial red brocade with very heavy gold thread embroideries of three Crowns over "V

is an anti-personnel fragmentation defensive grenade

the wood of which forms a strong backing to the steel point

• 21 copies of an Army newspaper entitled "The Babbling Brooke" all dated to late 1945

Original Austrian 1840 Flintlock Saddle Carbine Converted to Percussion - later Sold to U.S. Market MG 34 Measuring 36" x 24" withOriginal Item. Only One Available. This was originally a FLINTLOCK Saddle ring Carbine, made around 1815, which was then converted to the Percussion cap ignition system in 1840. It was subsequently sold to the United States, and imported just prior to the U. S. Civil War, where many of these weapons saw service, mostly on the Confederate side. The Carbine measures just shy of 30" in overall length, the rifled barrel measuring just 14 1 2". The wood