Original British WWII Vickers MMG Rear Sight Slide Mk II* MG 08-15 Maxim along with a Vatican City

along with a Vatican City tour guide which is marked “Rome 1944

well almost

and could easily withstand the increased pressure of the new smokeless powders coming into use by the late 1880s

A fine example

Original British WWII Vickers MMG Rear Sight Slide Mk II* MG 08-15 Maxim along with a Vatican CityOriginal Item: This is the third version of rear sight slide for the Vickers. For a good description of the evolution of the Vickers rear sights, see Ian Skennerton's Small Arms Identification Series, . 303 Vickers Medium Machine Gun, page 9. They are also well illustrated in Dolf Goldsmith, The Grand Old Lady of No Man's Land, page 448.