Original Antique British "Long" Magazine Lee-Enfield MLE MkI .303 Rifle Serial 8728 by RSAF Enfield with Repaired Cut Stock - Dated 1896 Cannons It is construction is brown

It is construction is brown leather chamois and wool lined flying helmet with buckle chinstrap (buckle side absent)

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton sent letters on 28 June 1863 to the commanding officers of the 25th Maine and 27th Maine regiments

This has had a fascinating history

No major damage to the leather

with the leg-tie-down still wrapped around the body

Original Antique British "Long" Magazine Lee-Enfield MLE MkI .303 Rifle Serial 8728 by RSAF Enfield with Repaired Cut Stock - Dated 1896 Cannons It is construction is brownOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Victorian Era was a time of great change in firearms technology, with Queen Victoria's crowning coinciding with the first official "Pattern" of percussion rifle for British forces, the Brunswick P 1837 "Two Groove" Rifle. There had previously been rifles and some percussion arms, but this was the first one put into wide spread production, and Flintlocks would continue to be used for decades after this point,