Original German WWII Finland Issued Winter War K98 Leather Pouch with German MG 42 MG Yugoslavian Field Cleaning Kit Original Items

Original Items: Only One Lot of 2 Available. These are both very nice items that are in lovely condition. This is a firearms related “lot” consisting of a leather magazine pouch and a machine gun field cleaning kit, both ready for display!
 
The Items Included:
– k98 Triple Ammunition Pouch: The pouch is marker marked and dated 1939 and was issued to Finland during the Winter War. The pouch is in a lovely used condition and appears to be without damage. The Winter War, also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War, was a war between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II; the war ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Union suffered severe losses and initially made little headway. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the organization.
 
– Yugoslavian MG 42 / MG 53 Machine Gun Field Maintenance Cleaning Kit: This is the maintenance kit that is carried by the MG crew to clean and service the gun while in combat or in a field environment. This kit includes scraper, cleaning rod sections, broken shell and extractor disassembly tools, chamber cleaning tools, flash hider wrench, bore brush, oiler, solvent & oil cans, barrel changing mitt, pull thru cord and sectioned canvas carry bag. The kit shows signs of being heavily used and the canvas bag does have staining.
 
The M53: In Yugoslavia this MG 42 variant was built at the state-owned Zavodi Crvena Zastava company as the Zastava M53 using original German machinery, retaining the 7.92×57mm Mauser chambering. By doing so, the Yugoslavs retained the original weapon’s design features, making the M53 a near exact copy of the German MG 42. The only major differences were a slower 950 rounds per minute cyclic rate of fire and no anti-aircraft sight mount. The aiming range of the M53 is 2,000 m (2,187 yd), and the terminal range of the bullet is 5,000 m (5,468 yd), the same as the MG 42. MG 42s captured in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II were put into reserve of Yugoslav People’s Army as M53/42s. The last military use of M53s in Yugoslavia was in 1999. Some quantities of M53s were exported to Iraq in the 1980s and saw extensive action during both Gulf wars. The M53 was known under the nickname Шарац (Šarac).