Original WWI Infantry Ranging Stake Percusion Muskets leather headband and brass ringed

leather headband and brass ringed leather backed chin scales

chest pocket with flap

- Stock may be broken or cracked

and securing the Douve River valley

these original covers are almost always missing

Original WWI Infantry Ranging Stake Percusion Muskets leather headband and brass ringedOriginal Item: Extensively used during WWI and WWII by both the Allies and Axis troops, these steel ring topped 28" stakes were placed around machine gun nests and trench fortifications at predetermined distances and were often incorporated with barbed wire. Once encountered by the opposing attack force the machine gunners and rifleman could immediately zero in on the assailants, knowing the precise range of these obstacles. An unusual infantry