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MODEL 1907 RIFLE SLING – VERY NICE CONDITION,
LEGIBLE MAKER’S STAMP, DATED 1918: Of the
pattern issued with the Model 1903 Springfield Rifles
and the Model 1917 Enfield Rifles, and manufactured
contemporary to the First World War, this russet leather
sling is complete and full length with all the
components.
This Model 1907 Rifle Sling retains a medium russet
leather color and smooth even finish with only minor
flexing and no crazing or flaking.
The leather is very
flexible with no hardening and the leather is not oil
soaked as so many of these slings are.
The sling is stamped just
behind the brass tip with a fully legible maker’s mark,
“L-F Co” and dated 1918, and there is a set of
inspector’s initials stamped on the sling adjacent to
the brass oval ring.
At one set of adjustment
holes the leather has been stressed to the point the
surface of the leather cracked. With a little care to
prevent putting unnecessary strain on leather when
mounting the sling on a rifle, and not pulling the sling
piano wire taut, will prevent this spot from being a
problem. Always good to remember that regardless of how
live the leather is, and how shiny the surface, it is
still 100 year (plus) old leather.
Full length with all the brass
furniture and both sliding leather keepers, this is very
nice example that would display well on a rifle in very
good to excellent condition.
(0612) $250
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