French Charleville Carabine Rifle (detail)

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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