Original U.S. Spanish American War Silver Mounted Officer Swagger Stick Marked MORO 81mm Mortar Many other British Gun Makers

Many other British Gun Makers copied the new rifle but Ezekiel Baker was the master

with a great patina of age

on the face of the percussion hammer

The 380th went overseas in April 1943 to become the second B-24 unit in the Fifth Air Force at that time after the 90th Bomb Group

T/5 Harold Roden

Original U.S. Spanish American War Silver Mounted Officer Swagger Stick Marked MORO 81mm Mortar Many other British Gun MakersOriginal Item: One of a Kind. The Moro Rebellion started just after the United States took control of the Philippine Islands at the close of the Spanish American War. The rebellion lasted from 1899 until 1913. The Moros were a tribe from the Southern Philippine Islands who did not see the U. S. as granting them freedom from the Spanish but as just an other set of Oppressors. This beautifully made Swagger stick, clearly commissioned by a U. S. Officer,