Original Japanese Pre-WWII Lugou "Marco Polo" Bridge Incident Commemorative Cigarette Case with Translation Gun Parts The stock has some lovely

The stock has some lovely curl to the grain in the butt stock area

The metalwork on the rifle still shows the original blued finish now faded to a lovely plum patina overall

which is clear:

The resulting blocks of color repeat vertically and horizontally in a distinctive pattern of squares and lines known as a sett

and is now VERY sharp

Original Japanese Pre-WWII Lugou "Marco Polo" Bridge Incident Commemorative Cigarette Case with Translation Gun Parts The stock has some lovelyOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident or the July 7 incident, was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing between China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army. Since the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, there had been many small incidents along the rail line connecting Beijing with the port of Tianjin, but all had subsided. In this incident,