British Vickers-Berthier Butt Stocks: Exotic w/ Recess Sales three pockets for the spare

three pockets for the spare lenses

these were intended as "Cargo Parachutes" just like were used at Arnhem in "A Bridge Too Far"

and rebuilt replacing any worn or broken parts by a master antique gunsmith

showing quite a bit of age from long service and storage but solid an serviceable

no metal parts

British Vickers-Berthier Butt Stocks: Exotic w/ Recess Sales three pockets for the spareOriginal Item: One Only! The Vickers Berthier light machine gun was a very close contender in the interwar trials that led to the adoption of the BREN gun by Great Britain. Britain? s colonial Indian Army, however, decided to adopt the V B rather than wait for the British Army? s BREN gun requirements to be completed. (Ian V. Hogg, Machine Guns, Krauss Publications 2002, pp. 106 107) IMA has found three only butt stock woods for the Vickers Berthier