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MACHINE GUN MEMORABILIA<br />
by ROBERT G. SEGEL<br />
Australian gold gilt and enameled veteran’s<br />
pin for the 2/1 Machine Gun Battalion Association’s<br />
50th anniversary. Enameled grey,<br />
black and yellow triangle insignia of the 2/1<br />
Machine Gun Battalion topped with a white<br />
enameled “50” with two Vickers machine<br />
guns along each side and a yellow enameled<br />
banner below marked “Machine Gun<br />
2/1 Bn. Assoc.” The rear is stamped with an<br />
ID member number 195 and maker marked<br />
Millers Ltd. Sydney. Pin back. The 2/1 means<br />
it was the second 1st Machine Gun Battalion<br />
formed during World War II. The 1st Machine<br />
Gun Battalion was formed in World War I.<br />
French CSRG Chauchat officer’s team member<br />
shoulder patch. Interwar period (1920s).<br />
Gold bullion stitched image of flaming bomb<br />
above a Chauchat Machine Rifle M1915 on<br />
a wool French Horizon Blue uniform background.<br />
Worn on upper left arm sleeve.<br />
World War I British shoulder title for the Royal Horse Guards, Machine Gun Guards.<br />
White stitching on red wool background with Royal Horse Guards arching over M.G.Gds.<br />
A very rare should title, the four Machine Gun Battalions (the three Household Cavalry<br />
Regiments, 1st and 2nd Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards and the 4th Battalion<br />
Machine Gun Guards joined and was renamed the 4th (Foot Guards) Battalion in 1918.<br />
Gold Coast Territorial Force machine<br />
gun officer’s silver plate collar badge<br />
(circa 1920s-1930s). White metal<br />
trumpeting elephant atop gold colored<br />
banner with “G.C.T.F.” to center<br />
atop silver plated crossed Vickers.<br />
Rear marked “Firmin London” with<br />
two lugs to rear. The Gold Coast was<br />
a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea<br />
in West Africa<br />
World War II Russian poster “Shoot To Kill!” by Nikolai<br />
Zhukov, 1942. Rendered by one of the major<br />
20th century Russian artists, this original 1942 small<br />
(10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches) poster is a rare first edition<br />
of this widely reproduced poster. It is one of the best<br />
known war-time images in Russia of a determined<br />
Russian soldier firing the M1910 Russian Maxim.<br />
Additionally, from a poster collector’s viewpoint, it is<br />
very rare that a poster shows another poster within<br />
the content of the image as is done in this case with<br />
the poster on the wall behind the soldier. It shows<br />
a mother and child at bayonet point with her plea<br />
below, “Soldier of the Red Army - SAVE US!”<br />
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