Very flat hat brims?
Springfield rifles?
Lots of yucca?
Oversized muzzle booster?
Yep, that’s an American 1904 Maxim in action in Mexico!
Very flat hat brims?
Springfield rifles?
Lots of yucca?
Oversized muzzle booster?
Yep, that’s an American 1904 Maxim in action in Mexico!
Continuing yesterday’s post, today I want to take a look at some of the long guns that jumped out at me while I was perusing the catalog for the RIA Premier Auction coming up in […]
Best known as the first semiautomatic service rifle adopted by a mainstream military force, the 1908 Mondragon was designed by Mexican native Manuel Mondragon, manufactured by SIG in Switzerland, and adopted by the Mexican Army […]
Manuel Mondragon was a talented lifelong gun designer born in Mexico. He worked extensively at the Swiss SIG factory, and was the man behind the first military-issue semiautomatic rifle. Before that, though, he designed this […]
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The Ft. Drum, NY Museum has one on display.
Great photo! Do you a recent book on photography and the Mexican Revolution, published in Mexico? The title is “México: fotografía and revolución” (ed. Miguel Ángel Berumen, Mexico DF: Lunwerg/Televisa, 2010). It is filled with fascinating period photos of federal and revolutionary troops armed with a varied array of rifles and machine guns, besides from several essays on the evolution of photography during that era.
Sorry, I should have written “Do you know…”
R.