Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert Japanese Holsters with most of the stitching

with most of the stitching remaining

There is also assembly number 937 marked on the loading gate

Steel button trigger

but by that date unmarried women in the age group 18–40 years could be drafted into auxiliary service

and we do not have a watch technician on staff to view the movement

Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert Japanese Holsters with most of the stitchingOriginal 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