Vintage Saturday: Serbian Maxim
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Serbian 1908 Carbine – Light, Handy, and Chambered for 7×57
The carbine in this video is available at auction here. The DWM order placed in 1899 had not provided Serbia with as many rifles as it had wanted, but it would take until 1906 for […]
Anti-Tank Rifles
Zastava M93 Black Arrow in .50 BMG at the Range
Today we have the M93 “Black Arrow” out at the range. I made an attempt to get the scope zeroed enough to be on paper, but was unable to get it there within a few […]
Book review
Blood Brothers: A Biography of Hiram and Hudson Maxim
Today we take a look at Iain McCallum’s Blood Brothers: Hiram and Hudson Maxim: Pioneers of Modern Warfare – a book deserving a place in everyone’s firearms library. Most people don’t realize that Hiram Maxim […]
This is almost certainly a set-up for a photo-op. The gun is not emplaced in a prepared position or even behind natural cover, the gun team is clustered too closely together for comfort and their uniforms are too clean.
The big handlebar mustaches would have been quite fashionable for the early 20th century as a sign of manhood, as they were during the preceding Victorian era.
Yeah, I’m sure it is a staged photo. Still interesting, though – it shows how the team was supposed to set up and what everyone’s jobs were. I’ll see if I can find a non-staged shot of a team in action to see what they did differently in real combat.
Big mustaches were popular in the US in the early Maxim era, although they were beginning to fall out of fashion. Didn’t see too many pictures of Western outlaws and law enforcement officers without a handlebar.
Most likely a ‘publicity photo’ meant for home consumption…showing the Brave Serbian warriors defending the homeland from the barbaric invaders with the new-fangled gun that spits out death like the devil’s breath…
CB in FL
Right. They only need a military brass band playing Mars na Drinu (March on Drina) to go with!
John,
It must be a staged photo as the belt seems to be in the feedblock on the wrong side
Removal of Kebab was never so easy.
The belt is definitely in the wrong side of the gun. Having seen many instances where photographers have set up photos incorrectly, I suspect that these guys are not the proper gun crew but a group selected for their appearance!
Dang, I hadn’t even noticed that. Whoops!
It could be, but there is another possibility that may be more likely. When composing a page for publication, there are “rules as to which way the people or animals should face in relation to the page. This is achieved by simply flipping the negative over. Right then becomes left
Its not a reversed image, because the loaded belt is hanging over the fusee cover, which is on the wrong side of the gun.
Hmmm……What’s up with this?
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