Original German WWI Maxim MG 08/15 Display Machine Gun - M.A.N NURNBERG 1918 Spanish Military Equipment still retaining its needlelike tip

still retaining its needlelike tip

Offered in great condition almost untouched but with "E" scratched into the back near the stamped markings

so it definitely was refurbished several times

Basically untouched from 50 years in storage

Original German WWI Maxim MG 08/15 Display Machine Gun - M.A.N NURNBERG 1918 Spanish Military Equipment still retaining its needlelike tipOriginal Item: Only One Available. This fine example 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 guns in each