Original Napoleonic British Made Portuguese Contract Brown Bess Musket from the Peninsula Wars 1808-1813 Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets Many of the rifles were

Many of the rifles were later converted to work with 6

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The scabbard (saya) brass-mounted leather

Serial number found under walnut grips is 6075 making this an 1861 production

Original Napoleonic British Made Portuguese Contract Brown Bess Musket from the Peninsula Wars 1808-1813 Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets Many of the rifles wereOriginal Item: Only One Available. This fine musket was most likely made in Birmingham for England's oldest European Ally, Portugal, for a contract issued originally by the Portuguese King DON PEDRO III. He came to the throne in 1777 but died prematurely in 1786. The contract was filled over years, in fact over decades right up to the time of Portugal's war, with Napoleon known as the PENINSULA WAR, which concluded in 1813 14. This particular Brown