Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886 Infantry Rifle by ŒWG Steyr Dated 1886 with Flame Figured Stock - Serial X587 OPTIONS_HIDDEN_PRODUCT Marked 65 B on top

Marked 65 B on top of pommel

3 Detonators

A total of 100 photographs fill this album

The 394th engaged in a variety of campaigns to include the Battle of the Bulge and the Ardennes Forest

so it could definitely do with a good cleaning and oiling

Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886 Infantry Rifle by ŒWG Steyr Dated 1886 with Flame Figured Stock - Serial X587 OPTIONS_HIDDEN_PRODUCT Marked 65 B on topOriginal Item: One one Available. In 1886 ALFRED VON KROPATSCHEK designed an 8mm rimmed cartridge rifle that became the fore runner to the French LEBEL. Known as the 1886 Kropatschek Rifle it's big customer was PORTUGAL. Production lasted from 1886 until 1898, however many saw service in the First World War and later in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's. Kropatschek's rifles used a tubular magazine (constructed of nickel plated steel) of his design,