Brazilian 1894 FN Mauser carbine.

[Patrick Chadwick]

I was just interested in whether or not that model kind of spilled over into 1899, thus making it 'modern'.

No chance. Get it and let us know how it performs!

P.S. Just had another look in Ball. It seems that Loewe also made these carbines (all with letter a prefix) as well as FN (all with A prefix). Normal practice was letter blocks with 4-figure numbers (1 to 9999). So max. 10,000 produced by FN in Herstal. From June '94 (rather July) to Jan '99 would be 54 months. For max. 10,000 units. That would be an average of 184 a month. About 10 each working day? Not plausible for the FN factory. I reckon they banged them out in a couple of months. Like I said - the carbine has a date. 1894. Period.