Original U.S. Spanish-American War to WWI Era M1878 Canteens With 1st & 2nd McKeever Cartridge Boxes for .30cal Krag and Springfield Cartridges British Flare Guns - London Hawkes & Company

- London Hawkes & Company

The serial number is 5988 with no letter suffix

however the bore is actually in very good condition

and was widely used for birds and small game

indicating late 1864 manufacture

Original U.S. Spanish-American War to WWI Era M1878 Canteens With 1st & 2nd McKeever Cartridge Boxes for .30cal Krag and Springfield Cartridges British Flare Guns - London Hawkes & CompanyOriginal Items: Only One Lot of 4 Available. The period from the early 1870s to the early 1880s is characterized by a considerable lack of uniformity in army clothing, particularly the field uniform. A look at period photographs reveals that even within the same company as many as four different patterns and several variations of uniform were in use at the same time. At the end of the Civil War, the Army Quartermaster Department had large quantities