Hobart Gun Show
Apr. 23rd, 2008 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithThe light in here wasn't very good. A bit dark, and bright lights directly over the display cases.
There were a number of displays, including this one of naughty ladies, some risque photos from the Edwardian and last Victorian era, with associated items.
Another display, of SMLEs (Short Magazine Lee Enfields), a British-made rifle, used by the Australian Army so it turns up a lot (and Pat tells me the ones at the fronts are Martini Cadets). Some more on a wall panel.
The information sheet says ".303 Magazine Lee-Enfield. Approved for British Service in November 1895 and manufactured at the Enfield Rifle Factory using the square cut Enfield rifling in the barrel, it was adopted for service use by the six Australian Colonies and was the service rifle used by Australian Troops when Federation of Australia was declared in 1901. This is the same model rifle that Australian troops carried in the Boer War 1899-1902."
Bottom one has "Magazine Lee Enfield Carbine. Introduced in 1896"
Come closing time on the first day, we realised we should have brought the usual sheets to cover up with. So we improvised.
There were a number of displays, including this one of naughty ladies, some risque photos from the Edwardian and last Victorian era, with associated items.
Another display, of SMLEs (Short Magazine Lee Enfields), a British-made rifle, used by the Australian Army so it turns up a lot (and Pat tells me the ones at the fronts are Martini Cadets). Some more on a wall panel.
The information sheet says ".303 Magazine Lee-Enfield. Approved for British Service in November 1895 and manufactured at the Enfield Rifle Factory using the square cut Enfield rifling in the barrel, it was adopted for service use by the six Australian Colonies and was the service rifle used by Australian Troops when Federation of Australia was declared in 1901. This is the same model rifle that Australian troops carried in the Boer War 1899-1902."
Bottom one has "Magazine Lee Enfield Carbine. Introduced in 1896"
Come closing time on the first day, we realised we should have brought the usual sheets to cover up with. So we improvised.
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Date: 2008-04-23 04:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-23 04:43 am (UTC)Indeed. Not as fancy-work knives and old guns that I like to look wistfully at this time around though.
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Date: 2008-04-23 04:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-23 05:03 am (UTC)(g) It's always good to get a reaction