RARE** British, WW1, 1918 Dated Lewis Machine Gun Fields Tool with Leather Maintenance Kit Pouch. Canvas Holdall with Handles & Blue & White Formation Patch. Sn - 23200:1 RARE** British, WW1, 1918 Dated Lewis Machine Gun Fields Tool with Leather Maintenance Kit Pouch. Canvas Holdall with Handles & Blue & White Formation Patch. Sn - 23200:1 Various Machine Gun

The Lewis gunner was issued as part of his equipment a comprehensive maintenance kit to keep the gun in a clean and serviceable condition. This is a rare, 2 piece kit comprising of a leather tool pouch and a large webbing holdall with a leather reinforced bottom, webbing carrying handle and sling. The holdall contains the leather pouch and the rest of the equipment. The leather pouch is stamped .303 M G RGD 1918 (date). The pouch contains the correct Lewis gun Plug Cleaning No 2 retained by its own leather strap and contained in the pouch inner bag is the correct trigger pull gauge with the screwdriver on one end and a pointed tool on the other which is stamped with the Salter monogram and MADE IN ENGLAND an oil bottle, inspection gauge stamped GUN LEWIS .303 and various other tools for the gun. The large webbing holdall has a blue and white formation patch on the front together with the roman numeral I and contains the leather pouch with tools together with a two piece ash handled and brass cleaning rod with mop, wooden handled screwdriver, three tinplate tins with sliding covers, two of which contains several small items and the long steel cleaning rod. The holdall retains all of its original leather closure straps and buckles. The price includes U.K. delivery. Sn 23200:1