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Returning to the Civil Guard Model in its basic configuration, the one point that puts it out of place with mainstream Spanish military rolling block rifles is the presence of the saber bayonet lug. Many collectors are aware that among the rolling block rifles sold to Spain from Remington, including those domestically produced by the Spanish under license, all official military versions were manufactured to accept only the angular bayonet. That is to say, except for the small numbers of Spanish-made musketoons and the so called “Royal Bodyguard” Models – the latter having a lug made to accept a 27-inch saber bayonet – makes all of this an exception and not the rule. It may well be assumed that the standard, catalog-specified Civil Guard Model many collectors are quite familiar with may have been a failure from a marketing standpoint and ended up being sold off to customers enthralled by its catchy nomenclature. Thus this first-to-be-seen, and obviously rare, No.1-1/2 size Civil Guard style rifle, chambered in .50-70 Government and adapted to an angular bayonet, may indeed be an independent, unknown variation that accidentally slipped through the cracks.