Sten Return Spring Housing Snider Rifle Parts Percussion Musket series and this

Percussion Musket series and this example is especially good

The helmet's "soup bowl" shape was designed to protect the wearer's head and shoulders from Shrapnel shell projectiles bursting from above the trenches

The turtle’s inclusion in the patch is not meant to indicate lack of speed

The oak-leaf cluster denotes a second award of the Silver Star

Sten Return Spring Housing Snider Rifle Parts Percussion Musket series and thisOriginal Item: The Sten Return Spring Housing acts as a guide for the return (recoil) spring and prevents the kinking problems common to some submachine guns. The button projecting from its rear surface retains the butt stock or the hand grip on the gun, being another fine example of the efficient engineering thought applied to the Sten. Used. British WW2 manufacture, interchangeable with all marks of the Sten gun.