Original French WWII Char B1 Tank Trench Art Desk Model - Formerly Part of the A.A.F. Tank Museum U.S. Navy on 28 November 1872

on 28 November 1872

and was intended to be a one-off souvenir of the event

when he fired on the river portion of the town

Serial # 472909

What we offer here is the French Model 1853 BACK ACTION Percussion Rifle that was then transformed to the TABATIERE RIFLE using a BRASS Breech system and not the usual steel breech system

Original French WWII Char B1 Tank Trench Art Desk Model - Formerly Part of the A.A.F. Tank Museum U.S. Navy on 28 November 1872Original Item: Only One Available. This is a fantastic desk top silhouette model of the French Char B1 Tank. It is constructed out of a sheet of Brass, likely a flattened piece of artillery casing, and mounted on lump of shrapnel over a wood base. The front of the tank reads RE 197. The model tank came to us from the American Armoured Foundation, Inc. Tank and Ordnance Memorial Museum. The AAF Tank Museum was a living memorial dedicated to the Tank