Original French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1892 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Saint-Étienne Serial G38558 - dated 1894 U.S. Flare Guns and had luminous paint in

and had luminous paint in them to make counting up to the correct one easier in the dark

VIII goggles etc

at the last

abalone shell diamonds were inlayed into the grips

In hand written ink is the name Raapke

Original French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1892 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Saint-Étienne Serial G38558 - dated 1894 U.S. Flare Guns and had luminous paint inOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Mannlicher Berthier rifles and carbines were a family of bolt action small arms in 8mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II (1940). The Berthier design began as the "Mousquetons Berthier" a series of bolt action cavalry and artillery carbines with distinctly different actions from the Mle 1886 M93 8mm Lebel rifle. For instance, the Berthier carbine's bolt lugs lock