Original British WWI Vickers Machine Gun .303 British Wooden Ammunition Box Russian Air Force Karl Alexander von Mueller

Karl Alexander von Mueller

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

Note - one arm is broken

After it was returned it was later sold

and then reissued for WWII

Original British WWI Vickers Machine Gun .303 British Wooden Ammunition Box Russian Air Force Karl Alexander von MuellerOriginal 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