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All original post Imperial Army manual collection. Not just MGs as the manuals cover all sorts - from small arms, tactics, AA usage, equipment. optics, and so on. However the focus is on the MGs up to 1937. Pull out posters/diagrams, superb detailed diagrams, colour plates and photos. AH in the front and some unit stamped including SS. Please email if of serious interest as I have lots of photos to send and/or can do more on request. Worthy of a museum and a serious collector/enthusiast. Either contact me through the Forum or direct mark.finneran@hotmail.co.uk 11 large manuals, nice front covers!! and lots of cards/pamphlets etc. Including postage US$2200. This is some US$800 less than the European price. Trades sought are WWI German MG08 or 08/15 related. Postage will not be issue (APO). Mark
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So a while ago I went on a roadtrip and as I was walking past a Veteran's Home I noticed a really cool display of what looked like cannons that might have come off a ship. As I began to walk across the lawn to another display underneath an American flag and a POW/MIA flag, I look down to see a PAIR of MG08/15 MGs. So I am thinking to myself these must certainy be fakes but as I begin to look at them they are both marked Spandau one is dated 1917 and the other is dated 1918 both have four digit serial numbers, I open the top cover and it is filled with rocks, the trigger on one of the guns can be pulled. I didn't check the other one. They have both been painted black and are in AMAZING condition considering that I think these guns are kept outside year round. The wood stock on both is toast and looks like it can't be saved. So here is my question does anyone think these guns are actually transferable or are they just on a Form 10 never to roar again? Has anyone ever "saved" guns in a situation like this? I am just curious because it really broke my heart to see them outside like that. Although, the display was very powerful.