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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 40918, member: 54&quot;]My thoughtful wife bought this interesting piece for the company collection.&nbsp; Thanks to Cartoongirl for letting us know about it here, I haven&#039;t searched on Ebay for quite some time. </p><p><br /></p><p>When it got here and I looked it over closely, continuing to wonder about the poppy and the M.1.5, I&#039;m thinking it all adds up to US Marine Corps.&nbsp; I think the M.1.5 means Marines, 1st. Regiment, 5th Battalion, which apparently did exist in Feb 1925.</p><p><br /></p><p>The USMC theme is further supported by typical infantry small arms ammo (.30 rifle and .45 pistol) that&#039;s bisected and applied to the exterior.&nbsp; The basic &quot;vase&quot; Hotchkiss one-pounder cartridge case would be more available aboard some Navy ships, perhaps by then used as a saluting gun, but there were &quot;landing gun&quot; carriages available for that weapon also, and the unit may have had them for amphibious operations.&nbsp; The poppy flower is kind of a WWI veteran&#039;s symbol, and the Marines who lost many in WWI would have used it.&nbsp; Perhaps the Marine who made this was a WWI vet?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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