A now very scarce MG42 machine gun in excellent condition, these are becoming much harder to obtain these days, deactivated with a working action, it can be cocked and dry fired, maker marked 'swd' on the body, the top cover is marked 'bpr', nicely marked bipod 'bcd' with eagles, body is 1945 by Magot, there are however some postwar parts on the MG, a clear sign that this example saw service after WW2 - such parts are marked German licence source to the numerous armies using the MG42 post war e.g. Poland, Yugoslavia, Czech and so on. MG42s are simply not available these days so a good opportunity to those that want an iconic MG.