Original French WWI Pair of Modèle 1915 CSRG Chauchat Magazines in Wooden Finnish Transit Case Marked SK.Y Miscellaneous Gun Parts HQ Fourth US Army

HQ Fourth US Army

though it looks like the header was torn off

while later ones would move to the modern serrations on the rear sides

Purchased recently directly from a private collector

which had started development a few years earlier

Original French WWI Pair of Modèle 1915 CSRG Chauchat Magazines in Wooden Finnish Transit Case Marked SK.Y Miscellaneous Gun Parts HQ Fourth US ArmyOriginal Item. Only One Set Available. This is a tremendous and scarce set of two magazines for the French Chauchat machine gun manufactured during World War I. One of the two magazines is stamped SA in a rectangle, for the Finnish Army (Suomen Armeija), which did use the Chauchat during WWI and after. The transit case for the magazines is marked SK. Y in a rectangle, denoting Finnish manufacture. The magazines are both in great service used condition