Original Southern Russian Black Sea Heavily Decorated Percussion Converted Carbine c. 1820 Antique Winchesters land service

land service

and has the W over P in an oval Winchester Proof mark used after 1905

During Operation Barbarossa

was used very widely in World War II by British forces as an AFV (armored fighting vehicle) gun

the revolver remains in very good overall condition

Original Southern Russian Black Sea Heavily Decorated Percussion Converted Carbine c. 1820 Antique Winchesters land serviceOriginal item: One of a kind. Here we have a nice example of the typical carbine used in Southern Russia near the Black sea. It is in very nice "attic fresh" condition, and looks to have been hanging on a wall or something similar for quite some time. This carbine, which has a hanger ring on the left side, may have been used on horseback, or for another purpose where dropping it was a real possibility. Originally made as a flintlock, as indicated by