Original African Shoka Small War Axe - Circa 1870 MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock and B on the receiver

and B on the receiver

revealing the control panel

The musket comes with a matched EIC socket bayonet that is also marked MORTIMER and dated 1799 along with the EIC heart logo

The chin strap is broken in half and (taped) but retains most of the grey finish

Original African Shoka Small War Axe - Circa 1870 MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock and B on the receiverOriginal Item: Only One Available. Africans have been refining and smelting metal and making iron implements since 1200 B. C. In fact, the Iron Age occurred earlier in Africa than in Europe. Iron implements grant a huge advantage to the user in all shapes and forms working axes and hoes facilitated agricultural expansion in Sub Sahara African societies, hunting became easier, and warfare became deadlier with the introduction of iron spears, arrow