Original Japanese Pre-WWII Type 92 7.7mm Aerial Display Machine Gun - All Matching Serial Numbers Spanish American War Subtitled in English

Subtitled in English

One end faintly stamped RAVISE in the wood the other end with a similar even fainter stamping plus what appears to be a BROAD ARROW marking

Theoretically only one sealed pattern of each model was kept "on hand"

dings and might even be slightly bent

Original Japanese Pre-WWII Type 92 7.7mm Aerial Display Machine Gun - All Matching Serial Numbers Spanish American War Subtitled in EnglishOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Type 92 7. 7mm machine gun (Kyuni shiki nana miri nana kiju) was developed for aerial use for the Imperial Japanese Navy before World War II. It was the standard hand held machine gun in multi place IJN aircraft during the most part of the Pacific War. It proved to be seriously inadequate. Aircraft produced in the later part of the conflict often were equipped with weapons such as Type 1 and Type 2 machine guns