Snider Enfield rifle. It is virtually stocked to the muzzle and the barrel is secured to the stock by two steel bands. Brass fore-end cap, butt plate and trigger guard. A slot is cut from the fore-end cap to the lower band to take a ramrod which is missing. The lock is a Snider conversion of an Enfield muzzle loader to a breech loader. A hinged block containing a spring loaded firing pin opens to the right by means of a knurled thumb piece on the left side. The barrel is of circular, external section, rifled with five grooves. Fitted with bayonet lug, blade foresight and stepped ramp and leaf rear sight graduated to 1,100 yards. Inscribed on the lockplate is 'Crown' over 'GR TOWER'. The rifle is fitted with a socket bayonet. Jacob Snider, an American, invented a breech-loading mechanism which was used by the British to convert percussion muzzle loaders into percussion breech-loaders. It was adopted in 1866. The Royal Navy used short rifles converted to Sniders in the Abyssinian Campaign of 1868 and in the Ashanti Campain of 1874.