Original U.S. Civil War Greene's Patent Under Hammer Bolt Action Percussion Rifle - c.1860 U.S. Flags Only One Set Available: A

Only One Set Available: A wonderful brown leather chamois-lined flying helmet with buckle chinstrap

Comes complete with its stout wire carry or hanging handle

backed out into the channel and headed north

also in offered in very good condition

Original U.S. Civil War Greene's Patent Under Hammer Bolt Action Percussion Rifle - c.1860 U.S. Flags Only One Set Available: AOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is something you don't see every day, and this is indeed the only example we have had of a Greene Under Hammer Rifle. The system was invented and patented by LT. COLONEL J. DURRELL GREENE, as indicated on the barrel tang markings, which are partly faded: GREENE'S PATENT. NOV. 17. 1857 This is the rifle that introduced the bolt action system to the U. S. Army, probably somewhat copying the German 1841 Dreyse