Lefaucheux egyptian carbine
Here’s a few of the ultra-rare Egyptian cavalry carbines. Less than 250 were made. Not many have survived.
Numbered in the regular Lefaucheux serials, but with additional Egyptian serials on the left.
These were different from the regular ones. These had the stock fastened permanently. On the civilian the stock was detachable.
If you see the two rifles together I believe it’s evident why the lanyard is there. The Egyptians had a chain there for cavalry use.
Paul
Not great a deal to repeat it above; except that the number delivered to the Egyptian cavalry was 250 from where it’s extreme scarcity.
I don’t know the date of the making of the market and I did not find a hard copy in the Lefaucheux files concerning this market.
The weapon was proposed with the cavalry of the French Army, but alas for Lefaucheux, refused….why, I don’t know yet.
One differentiates the civil one well from the soldier, certainly by the removable metal framework but also by the type of hammer.
Civil have a flat and rounded hammer, the soldier a square hammer.
The soldier has a shorter barrel, most probably to limit the obstruction and a back sight on the thunder.
The Egyptian rifle leaves the Lefaucheux workshops of Paris, verifiable by marking LF on the console on the right-hand side and marking on the barrel.
For the remainder these weapons are identical as well on the mechanical level as design to other models 1854 of Lefaucheux.
Guillaume
