Original 18th Century German Air Rifle with Wheel Lock Style Stock by Anton Baumann of Munick c.1798 Russian Navy WWII Japanese military flashlight signal

WWII Japanese military flashlight signal light in fully working condition

The inner skirt is maker marked with stamping into the steel:

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was unsurpassed and probably never equaled in the whole grim business of winning the war

It looks like the blade was at one time even wider

Original 18th Century German Air Rifle with Wheel Lock Style Stock by Anton Baumann of Munick c.1798 Russian Navy WWII Japanese military flashlight signalOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is very special and very rare! These are truly interesting, and we have only had one similar example before! It is signed in scroll letters on the octagonal barrel: Anton Baumann in Mnchen This air rifle was made by the high art Gun Maker ANTON BAUMMAN of MUNICH, who worked at his height between 1798 and 1812 when he was Gun Maker to the Crown Prince of Bavaria. It is constructed along the lines of a Wheel lock