Original French WWI All Steel Trench Raiding Club with Ball End Antique Percussion Firearms Lockplate is marked in front

Lockplate is marked in front of hammer I

Original Item: Original British military Vickers Medium Machine Gun feed block bodies

especially with engravings

along with an Eagle / 30 inspection stamp

Original French WWI All Steel Trench Raiding Club with Ball End Antique Percussion Firearms Lockplate is marked in frontOriginal Item: Only One Available. Trench raiding clubs were homemade melee weapons used by both the Allies and the Central Powers during World War I. Clubs were used during nighttime trench raiding expeditions as a quiet and effective way of killing or wounding enemy soldiers. The clubs were usually made out of wood, but sometimes all steel examples are encountered. It was common practice to fix a metal object at the striking end (e. g. an empty