Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert MG 42 and then served as a

and then served as a police officer during the Weimar republic and into the WWII Era

and V proof marks on the barrel breech

with the CROWNED FW monogram on the top arm for Frederick William

villagers in North China feared the expansion of foreign spheres of influence and resented the extension of privileges to Christian missionaries

784th Bomb Squadron

Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert MG 42 and then served as aOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a rare example of the WWI Italian Benaglia rifle grenade, actually a rod grenade. The rod grenade was patented by an Englishman named Frederick Marten Hale, an employee of the Cotton Powder Company at Faversham in Kent, in November 1909. Unfortunately, in practice, the rod grenade turned out to be an impractical weapon of dubious accuracy that caused stress on the rifle barrel, and which soon necessitated