Original Napoleonic Era Scandinavian Doglock Musket MG 42 Receiver plate is nicely marked:

Receiver plate is nicely marked:

which have the long flutes

and many of these on guns on the market are dented or damaged

Belleau Wood itself was a forest of horror from the hard fighting earlier in June [1918] involving the Marines

Items were exposed to some moisture

Original Napoleonic Era Scandinavian Doglock Musket MG 42 Receiver plate is nicely marked:Original Item: Only One Available. This is a most interesting Scandinavian musket using the Doglock system essentially as a safety. Dating from the Napoleonic wars when Denmark and basically the rest of Scandinavia chose to fight against Britain on the side of Napoleon Bonaparte. Twice England sent fleets to Copenhagen, in 1791 and again in 1807, decimating the Danish fleet and its allies. The 1801 engagement was when Admiral Lord Nelson, then only