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baton / Ulster Volunteer Force

One of two wooden batons used by the Ulster Volunteer Forces before the Larne Gun-Running. Turned wooden batons, lft. 9.5 in. in length. One end shaped as handle.

 

baton / Ulster Volunteer Force

One of two wooden batons used by the Ulster Volunteer Forces before the Larne Gun-Running. Turned wooden batons, lft. 9.5 in. in length. One end shaped as handle.

 

rifle / Irish Citizen Army, 1916

One Italian magazine bolt action rifle of the pattern used by the Citizen Army in 1916. Found by the British in a dump. On butt "ARTICA FABA D'ARMI TERNI-1888-RIPARAZIONE", Italian arms and serial no. KB 772. KB 772 on breech end of barrel and Terni 1884. Note: This is a Vetterli rifle and should...

 

rifle / Phibsborough, 1916

Rifle, Italian Vettereli type, dug up from a ditch at Phibsborough, Dublin. Italian Vetterelis were landed at Larne by the Ulster Volunteers in 1914. "1916" cut into the the wood of the butt. Very rusted and degraded from exposure to moisture in ditch. this was likely abandoned by the Volunteers...