WinSten Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 (edited) Im in Dublin for a few weeks and yesterday I had the chance tovisit Kilmainham Gaol Dublin. It was quite a moving experience.I highly recommend visiting it while in Ireland.Also I managed to take few pictures of the Thompson model 1921Serial # 232 they have on display.Enjoy! Edited July 28, 2019 by WinSten 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry Ploughboy Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 The wood doesn't look all that bad considering the state of the metal. I wonder if there is a nickel plated oil container in the buttstock. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD. Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 Great pictures. Thank you for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anticus Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 Wow, that’s an Irish Sword that truly wears it’s history ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalbert Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 Just a bit of "patina" on this one... Thanks for posting! David Albertdalbert@sturmgewehr.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timkel Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 The wood pieces look homemade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gijive Posted July 27, 2019 Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 The wood pieces look homemade.Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinSten Posted July 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2019 (edited) I thought the same looking at it in person. Definitely looks newish. Edited July 28, 2019 by WinSten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpw43 Posted July 28, 2019 Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 How long was it underwater? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autorotate Posted July 28, 2019 Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 Partial read of tag states “...made famous in Hollywood gangster movies...” Any idea what else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinSten Posted July 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 Here is close up picture of the Description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinSten Posted July 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 Not sure if in was hidden in a well. The museum display implies that it was hidden under a floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67ray Posted July 29, 2019 Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 Three digit Thompson - that is incredibly sad on so many levels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autorotate Posted July 29, 2019 Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 Cool display! Thanks for the close up of the tag... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpbcps Posted August 25, 2019 Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 Just catching up on posts I missed during my absence from the board over the last month or so. Serial no. 232 complete with one of the elusive Irish C Drums, what I would not give, regardless of condition, for one of those; it would make a nice display piece with the former IRA model of 1921 in my collection. I read somewhere in the past, that Johns Machine and stamp Co. manufactured a total of 535 ’C’ drums during the first ten weeks of production, and the majority of those drums were shipped to Ireland. So assuming 5,000 ‘C’ drums were manufactured by John’s, at least 11% of those were shipped overseas. Many of the IRA drums, together with the weapons recovered by the Irish and British security forces were eventually destroyed, examples shown in picture below recovered in County Mayo by the Irish Garda in 1942. I wonder if there are more forgotten Model of 1921's, still lying in weapons caches in Ireland. Regarding the condition of no.232, Maria McGuire, an IRA volunteer, post 1969, recorded her experiences in the book, “To Take Arms, A Year in the Provisional IRA”, which mentions the old Thompsons resurfacing: "Many of the Irish Thompsons have spent more time under the ground than over it…. I remember a wizened old man came into Kevin Street and produced various parts of a rusty Thompson gun out of a brown paper parcel ‘tis a present form the boys in Cork’ he said. Many IRA men will tell you that the Thompson is their favourite weapon….one of the major faults with the Thompson is that unless it is kept spotlessly clean, (often difficult in combat conditions), it’s prone to jamming; another is that it needs a strong man to handle it, because its barrel should make an imaginary figure of eight around the target; a third is that it has a relatively low velocity and there has been instances in the North of its heavy .45 bullets failing to pierce soldier’s flak jackets”. No. 282 is not listed in the Model of 1921's discovered on the SS East Side, with their serial numbers intact, so guess it may have been one of the 50 from the earlier P.G. Gentry shipment. Stay safe Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Henley Posted August 25, 2019 Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 Earlier this summer I saw what looked like SN 142 in the Collins Barracks not far away: http://www.machinegunboards.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23033&&page=2 Check it out if you're still there and get a chance. A lot of interesting firearms on display. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadycon Posted August 25, 2019 Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 Looks like 30 or more Thompsons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
full auto 45 Posted August 25, 2019 Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 Four of the originals that made their way to New Zealand. Old photos.http://www.mikesmachineguns.com/files/4_Irish_swords.jpgSerial numbers are, from front to back, 708, 586,389 & 993. http://www.mikesmachineguns.com/files/irish_sword_side_by_side.jpg http://www.mikesmachineguns.com/files/Irish_sword_2.jpg http://www.mikesmachineguns.com/files/Irish_sword_1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halftrack Posted August 25, 2019 Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 The old photo of the weapons cache is the largest group of colt Thompsons that Ive seen thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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