Original French WWI M2 Gas Mask Dated 1917 Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets Specialist Five Craig Schmidt

Specialist Five Craig Schmidt

At the time

this is not one of the cheap tourist or reproduction type flags that flood the market today

• Dome stamp (under the paint)

all originally sourced directly from the veterans family

Original French WWI M2 Gas Mask Dated 1917 Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets Specialist Five Craig SchmidtOriginal item: Only One Available. This is a nice condition complete French WWI M2 Gas Mask which is stamped 14. 8. 17 (August 14th, 1917). The M2 mask was based on a design proposed in 1915 by Ren Louis Gravereaux of Paris. An order of 600,000 masks was produced in February 1916 and introduced for British forces the following month. The first M2 model was produced in only one size and often incurred damage when it was folded for placement in a metal