Original Imperial German Adams / Webley Style .38 Colonial Service Revolver circa 1890 with Holster - Serial 583 Caps & Hats Now knowing Greenaway to be

Now knowing Greenaway to be a Boer War fatality an entry was sought in the ledger volumes for the Disposal of Soldiers' Effects

yet this one bears no maker marks or dates to it due to age and fading

an Australian Army colonel rejected Owen’s gun because Australian Imperial Force (AIF) commanders saw no value in SMGs

It also has a somewhat faint "boxed" stock inspection cartouche that reads JSA / 1897

New Made Item: Official British Issue Sam Browne belts were brown

Original Imperial German Adams / Webley Style .38 Colonial Service Revolver circa 1890 with Holster - Serial 583 Caps & Hats Now knowing Greenaway to beOriginal Item: Only One Available. Officially founded in 1871, the German Empire and its component kingdoms have never been really involved in the large scale formation of overseas colonies in the way that other European powers had been. This however changed in 1881 with the start of the "Scramble for Africa", and by 1884 Germany had amassed significant holdings in Africa and elsewhere. They then had the third largest Colonial empire, after only