Original British WWI Field Issue Lead Top Hobnail Trench Club MG 13 all leather visor

all leather visor

reproduction sight hood

Serial number clearly visible on underside of the barrel reads 40319 as well as a matching number on the grip frame

As best we understand the Leith Hall collection of both documents and weapons were sold to an English dealer named Herbert Sutcliffe and a collector in Vienna

The MP 40 was a submachine gun developed in NSDAP Germany and used extensively by the Axis powers during World War II

Original British WWI Field Issue Lead Top Hobnail Trench Club MG 13 all leather visorOriginal Item: Only One Available. Trench raiding clubs were homemade melee weapons used by both the Allies and the Central Powers during World War I. Clubs were used during nighttime trench raiding expeditions as a quiet and effective way of killing or wounding enemy soldiers. The clubs were usually made out of wood. It was common practice to fix a metal object at the striking end (e. g. an empty Mills bomb) in order to maximize the injury inflicted.