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French Charleville Carabine Rifle (detail)

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An image of Weapons. Rifle. Charleville Carabine Rifle. Production Place: France. 1793. Notes: The Charleville musket was a .69 caliber standard French infantry musket used in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Weapons. Rifle. Charleville Carabine Rifle. Production Place: France. 1793. Notes: The Charleville musket was a .69 caliber standard French infantry musket used in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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  • Accession Number: M.3-2017
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 100.81kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 32/1

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18th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending firing weapons Fitz_AA French guns infantry military musket rifles weapon weaponry weapons wood wooden

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