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Vintage Saturday: Not a Gun

February 9, 2013 Ian McCollum 9

This was posted on Reddit recently by the man’s great-grandson – the “gun” is a Hythe camera, used for training aerial gunners from 1915 until 1934. Why it’s mounted here on a surveyor’s tripod is […]

Vintage Saturday: Naval Maxim

February 2, 2013 Ian McCollum 20

MG-08 Maxim in German naval service, complete with shoulder stock, AA sights, ammo can, and brass-catching bag.

Vintage Saturday: Legislators

January 26, 2013 Ian McCollum 5

Photo from the May 1940 weapons testing at Fort Belvoir. From left to right, Senator Lundeen (MN, Farmer-Labor) with a Johnson rifle, Rep. Snyder (PA, Democrat) with an M1928A1 Thompson, and Senator Thomas (OK, Democrat) […]

Arms of the Venezuelan Coup

January 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 28

Fifty five years ago this week Marcos Pérez Jiménez, dictator of Venezuela, fled from power in the face of a popular uprising and botched military coup. Among other things, Jiménez had used Venzuela’s oil to […]

Vintage Saturday: Willie and Joe

January 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 24

US Marines somewhere in the Pacific with a captured Japanese Type 92 machine gun.

Vintage Saturday: Type 53

January 12, 2013 Ian McCollum 10

Unrelated to this photo…the Zhejiang Iron Works in China made everything from machine guns to grenades to field glasses – and called everything “Type 77” in commemoration of the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July […]

Vintage Saturday: Wingshooting

January 5, 2013 Ian McCollum 22

The guns are aircraft Degtyarevs (DA-2), and appear to not have the drums mounted when the photo was taken. Note the vane-type front sight, and the distinctive muzzle brakes.

Vintage Saturday: Death in the Long Grass

December 29, 2012 Ian McCollum 18

That’s a Dutch Madsen peeking out above the grass, there. Specifically designed with long bipod legs for this sort of terrain in the East Indies. I believe the photo dates to 1941.

The Best Pedal-Powered Vehicle Ever

December 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 20

This really has to be the most awesome pedal-powered vehicle ever built: I don’t know the background on the tricycle, but the Maxim guns are very rare air-cooled lightweight models. Like this one: Ultimately they […]

Vintage Saturday: Serbian Maxim

December 15, 2012 Ian McCollum 12