Serial No. 17067. All metal is finished in the white. Stock is near mint with perfect dated cartouche. Perfect action. Strong clean bore. Caliber 43mm. Really beautiful rifle in fine all original condition. Officially known as "fusil modele 1866", a military breechloading rifle, famous as the arm of the French forces in the Franco-German War of 1870-71. It has its inventor name, Antoine Alphonse Chassepot (1833-1905), who, from 1857 onwards, had constructed various experimental forms of breechloader. It became the French service weapon in 1866.