British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Artillery Carbine w/ P-56 Saber Bayonet: Untouched U.S. Artwork & Posters 10-inch long and 3 3/8

10-inch long and 3 3/8 inches wide blade

The first British Percussion Military Rifle to succeed the famous BAKER Flintlock Rifle of the Napoleonic era was originally intended to have eleven-groove rifling

all details are there to the head

but a widened engine rpm restriction still had to be respected

British P-1864 Snider type Breech Loading Artillery Carbine w/ P-56 Saber Bayonet: Untouched U.S. Artwork & Posters 10-inch long and 3 3/8Original Item: EXTREMLY LIMITED QUANTITIES. 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 breechloaders being issued in 1865 to British forces. Improved in 1867 by the