British Mk.III Flare Gun 1916.(57906)
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This is an original WWI, Cogswell & Harrison Mk.III flare gun made in 1916. This is the same year that the Mk.III* with the flared barrel extension was adopted.
The Mk.III gun is rarer than the Mk.III* due to production times.
This gun is matching serial numbers and in very good condition.
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Details
The Mark III signal pistol was adopted in 1911, as an improved version of the earlier Mark II pistol, which had been adopted in 1905.
Like the previous Mk II pistol, it was a brass flare gun with a tilt-down, break open loading mechanism and a single action lockwork.
The Mark III signal pistol was modified in February of 1915 with the addition of a butt swivel, and in December of 1916 the pistol was further modified with the addition of a flanged barrel extension, giving the pistol the look of a blunderbuss pistol. This variant was officially adopted as the Mark III*.
The brass flare pistols remained in production untill the end of WWI, although being superceeded by an all steel flare gun based on the Webley Mk VI.