Original U.S. Peabody M1866/1867 Switzerland Contract Falling Block Military Rifle in .41 Swiss Rimfire - Serial 4439 Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets 53 in) long with a

53 in) long with a 224 mm (8

The metalwork has a worn plum patina

complete with British Tower marked and dated lock and small Gurkha Battalion markings to Barrel Tang

The hard black leather grip plates are checkered and secured by four rivets entering from the left side

Original U.S. Peabody M1866/1867 Switzerland Contract Falling Block Military Rifle in .41 Swiss Rimfire - Serial 4439 Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets 53 in) long with aOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice example of a U. S. manufactured Peabody Patent Foreign Contract Rifle, one of an estimated 15,000 made for Switzerland in the late 1860s. They saw limited use and were replaced by the Repetiergewehr Vetterli in the early 1870s. The Peabody action was developed by Henry O. Peabody from Boston, Massachusetts, and was first patented on July 22, 1862. The patent was then purchased by the Providence