Original North African Tuareg Snaphaunce Lock Camel Carbine circa 1800 Japanese Marines with a BATF approved dummy

with a BATF approved dummy right side plate

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

which were perceived as too high above ground and too heavy

Original North African Tuareg Snaphaunce Lock Camel Carbine circa 1800 Japanese Marines with a BATF approved dummyOriginal 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