Hi All,
I picked this one up a while back after my good friend and collecting buddy Jory offered it to me. I had remembered it from several years ago when the original owner posted it. I quickly accepted when it was offered, as it's an interesting and scarce variant. I completed it with a Nordsee marked 98M sling and lid I already had in my collection.
The Reichsmarine (aka: Weimar Navy) was on a shoestring budget and they wasted nothing- the limited number of reworks I've seen utilize a lot of salvaged parts and unused Imperial ordnance spares. Some new interwar parts also make their way onto these. The level of reworking is also fairly crude compared to some of the other period reworks. This one doesn't disappoint with a cool RM anchor/M fireproof on the barrel, an imperial armorer's triggerguard and an s/147 rear sight ramp. The bolt, rear band and rear sight are cool interwar Simson-manufactured examples. The stock disc is marked on the left side for Nordsee fleet and the stock has some really cool repair work involving wooden pins/dowels. All parts appear to match as reworked.
The stock is duffel-cut behind the rear band; I recall Chuck, the original owner before Jory, found it missing the foreend, but had the matching front metal with it, so he restored with donor wood that matches really well.
Not much else to say other than share the pictures.
I picked this one up a while back after my good friend and collecting buddy Jory offered it to me. I had remembered it from several years ago when the original owner posted it. I quickly accepted when it was offered, as it's an interesting and scarce variant. I completed it with a Nordsee marked 98M sling and lid I already had in my collection.
The Reichsmarine (aka: Weimar Navy) was on a shoestring budget and they wasted nothing- the limited number of reworks I've seen utilize a lot of salvaged parts and unused Imperial ordnance spares. Some new interwar parts also make their way onto these. The level of reworking is also fairly crude compared to some of the other period reworks. This one doesn't disappoint with a cool RM anchor/M fireproof on the barrel, an imperial armorer's triggerguard and an s/147 rear sight ramp. The bolt, rear band and rear sight are cool interwar Simson-manufactured examples. The stock disc is marked on the left side for Nordsee fleet and the stock has some really cool repair work involving wooden pins/dowels. All parts appear to match as reworked.
The stock is duffel-cut behind the rear band; I recall Chuck, the original owner before Jory, found it missing the foreend, but had the matching front metal with it, so he restored with donor wood that matches really well.
Not much else to say other than share the pictures.
