German WWII MKb 42(H) Museum Quality Replica Non-Firing Machine Carbine by Shoei of Japan with Magazine in Box Brown Bess Muskets this would mean dates of

this would mean dates of 35 or 37

It bears serial number 12620

This example is only marked as M16

but later productions guns were made specifically for the device

retaining most of the original "piano varnish" finish

German WWII MKb 42(H) Museum Quality Replica Non-Firing Machine Carbine by Shoei of Japan with Magazine in Box Brown Bess Muskets this would mean dates ofMuseum Quality Replica Item: The Maschinenkarabiner 42(H) or MKb 42(H) (machine carbine Model 1942 (Haenel)) was an early German assault rifle firing an intermediate round of World War II. Designed in 1940 1941 by Hugo Schmeisser working for C. G. Haenel Waffen und Fahrradfabrik, several thousand were made and the gun was used on the Eastern Front in 1943. The MKb 42(H), along with the less successful Maschinenkarabiner 42(W) (MKb 42(W)) by Walther