Original Imperial German WWI Gummimaske GM-15 Rubberized Gas Mask with 1918 Dated Filter & Can U.S. Army used throughout the Civil War

used throughout the Civil War and on America's frontier during the Indian Wars

Military determined that a shorter bayonet was more useful

right up to the widening muzzle known as the muzzle swell

that would have been located in the Kingdom of Saxony

with some areas of past oxidation

Original Imperial German WWI Gummimaske GM-15 Rubberized Gas Mask with 1918 Dated Filter & Can U.S. Army used throughout the Civil WarOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very rare rubberized cloth GM 15 gas mask. The Gummimaske (Rubber Mask) 15 was initially produced in 1915. It was the prototype design of a gas mask system that allowed a soldier to fight an breathe whilst located in clouds of noxious and lethal chemicals. It was the first in a series of gas mask which were manufactured for military use by the German military in WWI. The very first version of the Gummimaske