Original U.S. WWI Marlin Colt M1895/14 Potato Digger Display Gun with Tripod - Serial No. 2510 Lee-Enfield (SMLE) However it was later purchased

However it was later purchased and brought back

indicating it was made in 1878

69 with a light cast iron body that had a much lower fragmentation radius

Waist belt is missing

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Original U.S. WWI Marlin Colt M1895/14 Potato Digger Display Gun with Tripod - Serial No. 2510 Lee-Enfield (SMLE) However it was later purchasedOriginal Item: Only One Available. The ColtBrowning M1895, nicknamed "potato digger" because of its unusual operating mechanism, is an air cooled, belt fed, gas operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute. Based on a John Browning and Matthew S. Browning design dating to 1889, it was the first successful gas operated machine gun to enter service. The diggers unique system utilized a piston operated by