-
FREE MEMBER
NO Posting or PM's Allowed
-
09-03-2010 11:58 AM
# ADS
Friends and Sponsors
-
Legacy Member
It looks like a holster for a side arm.
-
-
-
On the technical side of life, I'd say that it was a decoratively adorned whatsit
-
-
I've no idea! Maybe one of the '03 Springfield guys would have a clue? (Not that I think it's for a rifle, particularly.)
-
-
FREE MEMBER
NO Posting or PM's Allowed
Some sort of instrument case.
-
For a folded artillery elevation quadrant?
-
-
FREE MEMBER
NO Posting or PM's Allowed
It's only about 15" top to bottom, so I guess it could fit a gun, though it'd just rattle around in there - a folded elevation quadrant maybe; never seen one of those. Thanks for looking it over, y'all! I will keep looking around.
-
Contributing Member
That looks like a fancied up case for artillery spare parts... M1916 75mm Gun. Perhaps a modified case for an officer's trench periscope ?
See the M1916 spare parts case below as it was originally issued...
Last edited by Mike in Wis.; 09-06-2010 at 11:03 AM.
-
-
FREE MEMBER
NO Posting or PM's Allowed
Whatever it is, I am guessing it is Japanese by the brass chrysanthemum on the side - symbol of the Emperor.
Tom