Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Eight Groove Barrel - Excellent Bore Japanese Army 2) Class A uniform jacket

2) Class A uniform jacket with Sergeant chevrons

It is designed to protrude from the left side of the barrel and the off set in the post puts the Spider ring even more to the left in fact directly in line with the Bren Mark 1/1* series drum back sight which is off set because of the magazine

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Serial number 137925A denotes year of manufacture as 1882

Original British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Rifle with Eight Groove Barrel - Excellent Bore Japanese Army 2) Class A uniform jacketOriginal Item: Jacob Snider, an American from New York, developed this breech loading system for the P 1853 Enfield, the most prolific imported Percussion rifle in use by both the North and South during the U. S. Civil War. When the British Board of Ordnance appointed a Select Committee in 1864 the Snider system was swiftly adopted with the first breech loaders being issued in 1865 to British forces. Improved in 1867 by the use of Colonel Boxer's