Original U.S. WWI Canvas Machine Gun Cover for Colt-Vickers M1915 & Browning M1917 - dated 1918 81mm Mortar Firemen had to obtain their

Firemen had to obtain their own edged weapons for ceremonial and formal occasions

but the leather is still strong and supple

A great service worn example

This means that this rifle or more likely the action was a conversion from the 1873 model

Original U.S. WWI Canvas Machine Gun Cover for Colt-Vickers M1915 & Browning M1917 - dated 1918 81mm Mortar Firemen had to obtain theirOriginal Item: Only One Available. By the early 1900s, the U. S. military had a mixed collection of automatic machine guns in use that included M1895 "potato diggers", 287 M1904 Maxims, 670 M1909 BentMerci guns, and 353 Lewis machine guns. In 1913, the U. S. began to search for a superior automatic weapon. One of the weapons considered was the British Vickers machine gun. Field tests were conducted of the Vickers in 1914, and the gun was unanimously