Came across this, thought it was pretty damn cool and I thought I'd throw it out here.
https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/1013-369/
https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/1013-369/
Cool old MG
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Type 24 came out in 1935. 24 was the year on the Nationalist calendar which started with the revolution in 1911.
Ones I have seen are well-made guns. They are in many ways a tribute to the EXCELLENT original engineering of the Maxim system.
BTW, they are closer to a Russian SPM than they are to a German '08; the Lock attaches to the Toggle with a lugged extension rather than the interrupted-screw attachment of the German gun. Apart from that, they are pure Maxim. There is a Type 24 in the Canadian War Museum. They didn't know what it was until I identified it, which was following on future MP Inky Mark translating the factory inscription.
Imperial War Museum has a brass-jacket Maxim with the entire water-jacket fully engraved. Not sure what it might be; looked Persian to me. It's not on general display but they do have it in their Reserve Collection. Beautiful piece!
Ones I have seen are well-made guns. They are in many ways a tribute to the EXCELLENT original engineering of the Maxim system.
BTW, they are closer to a Russian SPM than they are to a German '08; the Lock attaches to the Toggle with a lugged extension rather than the interrupted-screw attachment of the German gun. Apart from that, they are pure Maxim. There is a Type 24 in the Canadian War Museum. They didn't know what it was until I identified it, which was following on future MP Inky Mark translating the factory inscription.
Imperial War Museum has a brass-jacket Maxim with the entire water-jacket fully engraved. Not sure what it might be; looked Persian to me. It's not on general display but they do have it in their Reserve Collection. Beautiful piece!
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Brother got back from Mongolia last month.
Ancient swastika was very common there and in China.
and in Canada. For example, around the town of Swastika, Ontario (where Ontario Gun and Tackle was located)
