Original African Spatula-shaped Dagger with Heavily Decorated Scabbard - c.1800 Knives & Daggers A ramrod was affixed to

A ramrod was affixed to the carriage to provide a wet swapping action for the hot barrel and to push shot down all the way to the chamber base

The baskets may bear markings but generally the thick postwar paint has obscured any legible manufacturer codes or dates (we cannot honor requests for WW2 marked baskets)

• 1926 dated fusse spring cover

Around 1905 the term Verners Pattern with a model number was used starting with a Verners Pattern V

Officer Commanding 'A' Company

Original African Spatula-shaped Dagger with Heavily Decorated Scabbard - c.1800 Knives & Daggers A ramrod was affixed toOriginal Item: Only One Available. This came into England in the early Victorian era around 1840 with returning Explorers. My father who was born in 1905 told me that as a boy he remembered seeing Atlases showing the Continent of Africa with "UNKNOWN" or "UNEXPLORED" printed across the interior. It was the likes of STANLEY and LIVINGSTONE who opened the central part of isolated Africa to the Western World. Our example of an early Central African