Original Belgian Percussion Trade Musket with 1868 dated Austrian Lock made for the African Market French Holsters though it is somewhat hard

though it is somewhat hard to read

as well as dozens of period photographs

During the rearming of the Wehrmacht the first top secret rearmament measures were carried out in spring 1933

the Ordnance Department abandoned the Maynard system and went back to the earlier percussion lock

with typical age patina to the silvered cockade

Original Belgian Percussion Trade Musket with 1868 dated Austrian Lock made for the African Market French Holsters though it is somewhat hardOriginal Item: Only one Available. Dating to the later Victorian era and possibly even produced up until World War I, this type of percussion Musket was basically the bottom of the barrel in European gun manufacture. In the late Victorian era the Countries of Europe controlled great swathes of land, known as Colonies, throughout Africa and the far East. These native populations needed weapons just to exist for hunting game for the table and to prevent