MP40 Waffen amt STG44 Magazine Martini-Henry Rifle Because Maxims were always issued

Because Maxims were always issued painted the "Steel Jacket Body" version had gone unnoticed until this purchase directly after the collapse of the Soviet Union

Found at the 2013 Baltimore Gun Show and purchased from an old time Collector who had this for 45 years and even remembered the even older and now deceased and very well known Connecticut Collector he got it from in the 1960s

Once the Norwegian government realized that they actually needed the helmets for their own Border Guard

The Hotchkiss machine gun itself (excluding the tripod) has only 32 parts ( US War Department Handbook of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun

and to break when bent

MP40 Waffen amt STG44 Magazine Martini-Henry Rifle Because Maxims were always issuedOriginal Item: One Only! Only one we've got, ORIGINAL, marked "StG44" Magazine coded "qlw" with Waffen amt markings (WaA89), surplused by Czechoslovakia after WW2.(Czech lion stamp with 46). Most original Blue Black Finish remains with slight storage rubbing. These StG44 marked, magazines were always the hardest to find.