Original Swiss First Model 1889 Schmidt-Rubin Magazine Infantry Rifle - Serial No 112429 WWI - 14 wartime photographs including

- 14 wartime photographs including on of Rodriguez wear this very jacket which shows the silver bombs on the right chest but was taken before he had the 44th BG Crazy Eight Balls patch sewn on the left chest

Lieutenant Colonel George V Millett Jr was given the command

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with a very decorative pommel an guard

Original Swiss First Model 1889 Schmidt-Rubin Magazine Infantry Rifle - Serial No 112429 WWI - 14 wartime photographs includingOriginal Item: Only One Available. The first Model Schmidt Rubin rifle was designed and approved in 1889, with production running between 1891 and 1897 at Eidgenoessische Waffenfabrik (Swiss Arms Factory), Bern, with a total production of about 212,000. This means that all model 1889 Schmidt Rubin rifles are pre 1899, and considered antique under Federal Law. As this is rifle serial number 112429, we estimate this rifle was produced in 1894 5. This