Trapdoor identification

[Rob]

Can someone please identify this European(?) "trapdoor" rifle?

An auction has it listed as a "U.S. Springfield Model 1868 .50-70 caliber Trapdoor rifle."

Which I believe is wrong.

 

[chasseur]

It looks like a variation of one of those french or Belgian Zulu guns

 

[sail32]

Perhaps an Original M-1867 Belgian Albini-Braendlin 11mm Infantry Rifle

http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20belge/artisans%20identifies%20a/a%20albini%20braendlin%20gb.htm

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/or...ndlin-11mm-infantry-rifle?variant=26169314309

http://www.militaryrifles.com/belgium/Albini.htm

 

[Rob]

Perhaps an Original M-1867 Belgian Albini-Braendlin 11mm Infantry Rifle

http://www.littlegun.be/arme belge/artisans identifies a/a albini braendlin gb.htm

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/or...ndlin-11mm-infantry-rifle?variant=26169314309

http://www.militaryrifles.com/belgium/Albini.htm

That looks just like it. Thanks.

Its in a local all-purpose auction. They describe it as:

"U.S. Springfield Model 1868 .50-70 caliber Trapdoor rifle. These scarce U.S. issued military rifles were only manufactured from 1868-1872. All are serial numbered on the side of the barrel and breech block. This is the direct forerunner of the later Model 1873 .45-70 Trapdoor Springfield. The Model 1868 Springfield utilized left over lock plates and other various parts from earlier Civil War .58 caliber muzzle loading rifles that the arsenal still had on hand. These early .50-70 single shot Trapdoor Springfields were the rifles sent to the West for the early Indian Wars. In the 1870's a large number of buffalo hunters were known to have used .50-70 Springfields to great and lethal effect on the herds. With production time and numbers small, the Model 1868 Springfield is a difficult arm for collectors to obtain."

Where they got this idea from I do not know. Maybe from the consigner.