Original Imperial German WWI MG 08/15 Model Desk Paperweight on Marble Base Magazines Concurrently and for similar reasons

Concurrently and for similar reasons

It was used on the Eastern and Western Fronts from mid-1943 to the end of the war in May 1945

the stitching attaching the front visor has completely rotted out

as even the steel examples usually are bashed in

The was some exposure to moisture as the tin can has rusted significantly revealing the rock like meat

Original Imperial German WWI MG 08/15 Model Desk Paperweight on Marble Base Magazines Concurrently and for similar reasonsOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is an incredible small model of the legendary German Maxim Maschinengewehr (Machine Gun) 08 15, known as the MG 08 15. This gun became, by far, the most common German machine gun deployed in World War I (Dolf Goldsmith, 1989) since it reached a full allocation of six guns per company or 72 guns per regiment in 1918. By that time, there were four times as many MG 08 15 light machine guns than heavy MG 08 machine