Original North African Tuareg Snaphaunce Lock Camel Carbine circa 1800 Japanese Marines This lovely little brass mounted

This lovely little brass mounted CAMEL carbine with short Gras bayonet was issued for "Colonial Service" indicted by the brass mounts was originally a needle fire Chassepot

Modern military tactics have obsoleted both the use of this sort of body armor and of horses so these have been relegated to history

this is the Indian Army issue all steel Scabbard for the Long 10" bladed Bowie Bayonet

The bolt which has its correct mounted troop's "turn down" bolt handle is numbered H86953

Original North African Tuareg Snaphaunce Lock Camel Carbine circa 1800 Japanese Marines This lovely little brass mountedOriginal Item: One Only. These are most unusual, the TUAREG were and still are the native Arab BERBERS that occupy the hottest and nastiest parts of the Saharan Desert. Their History goes back to just after Christ and there was a great Tuareg Queen known to have ruled around 500 A. D. What is today half a dozen Countries including Algeria, Mali, Chad, Tunisia etc. was largely colonized by France in the 19th Century, you remember the French Foreign