Original U.S. WWI Marlin Colt M1895 Potato Digger Display Gun Russian Artillery For display purposes only

For display purposes only

It was converted to a breech loading Snider rifle sometime in the 1860s by the British Military

It may well have passed through being modified to an 1895 Long Lee Enfield as well

with an image size of 4x5 inches

and wore that instead of the shoulder insignia that had been prescribed by the AEF

Original U.S. WWI Marlin Colt M1895 Potato Digger Display Gun Russian Artillery For display purposes onlyOriginal Item: Only One Available. The ColtBrowning M1895, nicknamed "potato digger" because of its unusual operating mechanism, is an air cooled, belt fed, gas operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute. Based on a John Browning and Matthew S. Browning design dating to 1889, it was the first successful gas operated machine gun to enter service. The diggers unique system utilized a piston operated by