№121525Tape receiver "Maxim"

Russian Empire. 1916. The guide plate (tip) from the tape to the three-line machine gun of the Maxim system of the 1905/1910 model. The state emblem is an eagle and the stigma of the Tula arms factory is the crossed letters of the luck of Emperor Peter the Great.

"Both ends of the tape are equipped with tips made up of two flat copper sheets chained together and which are designed to facilitate the insertion of the tape into the feed mechanism." From the instruction on shooting

Red bronze (copper).