Original Imperial German WWI Isle of Man Knockaloe Internment Camp Trench Art Bone Carving Percusion Muskets with engraved brass mounts and

with engraved brass mounts and a patch box to the right side of the butt with a sliding wood lid

probably made well before WW1

and are very hard to come by

The head is studded with iron studs and is about 3 1/2" in diameter

Note the early muzzle flash hider and early gas cylinder for the M1918 version and not the M1918A2

Original Imperial German WWI Isle of Man Knockaloe Internment Camp Trench Art Bone Carving Percusion Muskets with engraved brass mounts andOriginal Item: One of a kind. On 5 August 1914, the day after World War I broke out, the British Government passed the Aliens Restrictions Act, whereby the British Government could control the movement of enemy aliens. General internment of all Germans of military age began in May 1915 following the sinking of the Lusitania. Creating the bone carvings such as this example, was one of the ways in which the men passed their time at the camp and each