Original Ordnance RML 2.5-Inch Mountain Screw Gun Shell- Rudyard Kipling Hand Select:Yes found some 12-pounder Armstrong projectiles

found some 12-pounder Armstrong projectiles outside Richmond in 1865 and later donated his collection to the West Point Museum

Modern technology have pushed these wonderful helmets into obscurity and they can now only act as reminders of the glorious past

303 British ammunition

The buckets were intended for hanging most probably full of sand but certainly could be used for water if required

Length: 17”

Original Ordnance RML 2.5-Inch Mountain Screw Gun Shell- Rudyard Kipling Hand Select:Yes found some 12-pounder Armstrong projectilesOriginal Item: Rudyard Kipling gave the name Screw Gun to the British Ordnance RML 2. 5 Inch Mountain Gun in his famous poem Screw Guns, and the gun has been known thus ever since. The Ordnance RML 2. 5 Inch Mountain Gun was made with the barrel in two parts so that it could be broken down into loads that could be carried by animal transport, usually mules but occasionally camels. The two sections of the gun were connected by a threaded, or screwed,