Original British WWI Vickers Machine Gun .303 British Wooden Ammunition Box Russian Air Force this WWII Officer Visor Cap

this WWII Officer Visor Cap is named to General Joseph Lawton Collins

Produced in the pre WW2 Stalin era for the AVS (Avtomaticheskaya Vintovka Siminova) automatic Rifle as the Model AVS 1936

This was basically a last ditch civic militia utilized in the end days of WWII

After an attempt to occupy Athens by force

There are areas of past fouling and oxidation

Original British WWI Vickers Machine Gun .303 British Wooden Ammunition Box Russian Air Force this WWII Officer Visor CapOriginal Item: Only One Available. Over the service of the Vickers, there were two main different types of belt box: wooden and metal, with the wooden box in service first. Once of the differences was with precautions against the use of poison gas. Army Order 194 of June 1917 reads The effects of corrosion of ammunition are even more serious than the direct effects of gas upon the arms themselves. S. A. A. boxes must be kept closed, and be made as gas