Original Russian WWI Era MPL-50 Entrenching Tool With Rare Imperial Eagle Still Visible - Dated 1914 Russian Army and has a pebbled background

and has a pebbled background over the entire field of the buckle

with no major chips or cracks

Year of Manufacture: 1892

The top cap still has the rubber sealing washer

inside flap as : Hilborn-Hamburger INC just above VITALON

Original Russian WWI Era MPL-50 Entrenching Tool With Rare Imperial Eagle Still Visible - Dated 1914 Russian Army and has a pebbled backgroundOriginal Item: Only One Available. Now this is a rare sight to see anymore. This is your ordinary WWI Russian Empire used MPL 50 Entrenching Tool, but there is something rather rare about it. The spade portion of the shovel still has a visible Imperial Eagle, which was usually punched out or sanitized after the dissolution of the Empire in late 1917. The example is dated 1914. The MPL 50 is a small spade (50 cm (20 in) length) invented by Danish