1903 international match

[Dick Foster]

Just received my Military Trader journal that has a article about pith helmets. It shows some marine officers with the pith helmets in Haiti during the 20's. What was amazing to me was the other item in the picture, seven members of a rifle team all holding long barreled 1903 springfields with hooked butt plates and round ball forend supports. I thought they made very few of these springfields and yet here is a Haitian police team equipped with seven of these rifles. I wonder is they are still rusting away in some arms room in Haiti??/ The other surprise was the caption under the photo didn't even mention the rifles, just the helmets, no interest I guess in rare Springfields worth a lot more than a pith helmet.

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