Original French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1892 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Châtellerault serial B 728 - dated 1897 Restoration Materials There are some small missing

There are some small missing chunks on the front of the foregrip on both sides

The grenade still retains much of its original green/gray coat of paint

This is a complete and fully BATF approved inert non-firing display non-gun built around a newly made dummy receiver side plate

and there were two barrel lengths offered by the factory

not the usual two seen on these rifles

Original French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1892 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Châtellerault serial B 728 - dated 1897 Restoration Materials There are some small missingOriginal 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