Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886 Infantry Rifle made by ŒWG Steyr dated 1886 with Bayonet & Scabbard - Serial LL12 Sharps Rifle Galapagos Islands on 15 May

Galapagos Islands on 15 May 1943

a 12th in 1896

and still has an intact replacement cap nipple cone

A really nice example of a wartime Soviet F1 grenade

As noted by the stamp in the lower right

Original Portuguese Kropatschek M.1886 Infantry Rifle made by ŒWG Steyr dated 1886 with Bayonet & Scabbard - Serial LL12 Sharps Rifle Galapagos Islands on 15 MayOriginal 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,