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Rick B
08-03-2014, 01:04
Seen this today while Antique hunting. It weight every bit of 75 pounds or more. They cast it with a rifle missing the rear guard for some odd reason. Rick B

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kcw
08-03-2014, 06:39
For what possible purpose? Maybe to hang it outside, over the door of a gun shop? Couldn't do that these days. Some fly-by-night scrapper would steal it in a heartbeat!
joem
08-04-2014, 05:37
Pretty neat but at $695.00 it's more than I want it.
M1Garandy
08-04-2014, 10:33
To me it looks like something that would have been part of a WWI statue of some type.
Stephan
08-04-2014, 06:07
Things that make ya' go 'Hmmmm'
John Sukey
08-05-2014, 01:02
Possibly a bayonet trainer (fencing musket)
Rick B
08-05-2014, 11:00
John,
it weighs close to 100 pounds. No trainer here :) Rick B
da gimp
08-05-2014, 11:28
To me it looks like something that would have been part of a WWI statue of some type.


sounds very likely to me sir......................good thinking.
nickg
08-30-2014, 05:37
bet there is a ww1 memorial missing their 1917 somewhere
ebeeby
08-30-2014, 08:03
bet there is a ww1 memorial missing their 1917 somewhere


Yeah - that's the one of York where they took the '17 down and put in an '03 ! :)
Dan Shapiro
09-01-2014, 03:35
That idea of being missing from a war monument is not far-fetched:

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WME8XJ_Viquesneys_Spirit_of_the_Doughboy_Gallipoli s_OH

The notation says that the missing rifle was replaced by a rifle resembling a Springfield '03 - like similar monuments in the area. It would appear that people still believe the Doughboys were only armed with Springfields.
ikesdad
11-02-2014, 01:39
Is that statue holding a #4 mk1 ?
Fred Pillot
11-03-2014, 12:31
Art students make stuff like that. Just another thought.
da gimp
12-08-2014, 10:26
an experienced officer here was in doubt that it came off a statue..... as we could not find any marks where the hands of a doughboy would be holding it on that cast rifle..............after talking. we both doubted that they'ld make the rifle so easily detached from a statue....
Dick Hosmer
12-08-2014, 02:49
My guess would be a punishment rifle - "Here, Mr. Dumbjohn, take a few laps with this at port arms, smartly now!"