Original Imperial German WWI MG 08/15 Model Desk Paperweight on Marble Base U.S. Antique Guns with a great original finish

with a great original finish

the unit was transferred to Jacksonville

On Easter Sunday

This particular jacket is made of heavy brown leather lined with a combination of brown moleskin cotton and Grey artificial silk

The tag reads as:

Original Imperial German WWI MG 08/15 Model Desk Paperweight on Marble Base U.S. Antique Guns with a great original finishOriginal 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