RARE WW1 US ARMY CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE - STEWART MODEL 749A HAND CRANK SIREN For Sale
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RARE WW1 US ARMY CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE - STEWART MODEL 749A HAND CRANK SIREN:
$539.00
ORIGINAL! RARE! WW1 U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE - STEWART MODEL 749A HAND CRANK SIREN 1917RARE ! WW1 U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE - STEWART MODEL 749A HAND CRANK SIREN
THIS WW1 WARTIME U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE - STEWART MODEL 749A HAND CRANKSIREN WAS MADE FOR THE " U.S. ARMY CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE " (LATER TO BECOME THE U.S.ARMY CHEMICAL CORPS) AS CHEMICAL GAS WARFARE WAS BEING WAGED BY ALL SIDES IN AND AROUND THE TRENCHES OF EUROPE IN WORLD WAR ONE.
THE SIREN WOULD BE CRANKED BY A U.S. ARMY SOLDIER OR U.S. MARINE THAT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF A PRESENCE OF A CHEMICAL GAS TO ALERT THEIR UNITS TO DON THEIR GAS MASKS.
VERY FINE WITH SOME LIGHT USE AND HANDLING FROM ITS 107+ YEARS.
COMPLETE WITH ITS CAST METAL BASE AND AN ORIGINAL PLYWOOD MOUNT.
RETAINING THE MAJORITY OF ITS ORIGINAL U.S. ARMY OLIVE DRAB PAINT WITH SOME SMALL SPOTS OF OXIDATION.
NICE OVERALL ORIGINAL PATINA. UNCLEANED.
ORIGINAL CAST IRON BASE HAS A LIGHT OXIDATION OVERALL.
ORIGINAL PLYWOOD MOUNT IS VERY FINE WITH SOME LIGHT WEAR WITH A NICE PATINA.
VERY RARELY DO YOU FIND ASTEWART MODEL 749A SIREN, LET ALONE WITH ITS ORIGINAL PAINT THAT HASN'T BEEN REPAINTED OR RESTORED.
WORKING CONDITION.
FOR DISPLAY ONLY.
PRODUCES A EXTREMELY LOUD SIREN NOISE REMINISCENTOF THE FIRST AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE HORNS.
THE REVERSE PLATE READS:
10765
SERIAL NO 12469
STEWART MODEL 749A
MADE FOR
CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE US ARMY
BY
STEWART WARNER SPEEDOMETER CORP
CHICAGO USA
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Titles of Distinction
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Hero of Socialist Labor
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of USSR
- Dist. Military Pilot USSR
- Dist. Military Navigator USSR
- Dist. Test Pilot USSR
- Dist. Test Navigator USSR
- Distinguished Pilot USSR
- Dist. Navigator USSR
Orders of Distinction
- Order of Lenin
- Order of October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of Suvorov
- Order of Ushakov
- Order of Kutuzov
- Order of Nakhimov
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
- Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Order of the Patriotic War
- Order of Red Banner of Labor
- Order of Friendship
- Order of the Red Star
- Order Service to Motherland
- Order of the Badge of Honor
- Order of Honor
- Order of Personal Courage
- Order of Glory
- Order of Labor Glory
- Order of Mother Heroine
- Order of Maternal Glory