Model 1874 Gras rifle, 11 mm caliber, 800 mm rifled barrel (dirty but well scratched) dated C.1878 au thonnerre, with front sight and planchette frog, case well marked Manufacture d'armes Châtellerault Mle 1874, walnut stock with blank stamp, punched iron fittings, traces of use on wood, storage oxidation, original bronzing on barrel and case, ramrod missing, presence of Belgian proof marks, LT 1310 mm, monomatricule, n° C 22557, IIIe république period, category D § e.

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