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Dave Roberts said:
I disagree on Scope , Scope is Zeiss Zielvier IMO , take a closer look at Saddle & Dial
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You are right, it doesn't even have a sunshade. Must be a Zielvier. That is what you get for looking at pictures on a mobile :D .

mdarnell19 said:
The more I look at it the more I think it has a flat butt plate.
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Hmm .. it doesn't look like cupped, but to me it kind of looks too thick for flat either? Attached a blown up and sharpened cutout from the image.

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mrfarb said:
IMO the SS sniper photo is a staged fake, a Reenactor.
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Dang! Once you pointed that out you can’t unsee it. It’s totally a modern photo. Which is why his rifle is so weird. We sniper collectors are idoits!

Declaration! All short side rails are fake. I mean, short sides are so bad we can’t even trust photos of them.
 
OK , here is a copy of same photo , I have seen several of this reprint sell over past few years . I never bought a copy because of the Eagle Swastika on box and it screamed fake/reprint . As for the one we are discussing now it does differ from the one I posted slightly . I did not purchase the photo knowing what I knew about the reprints .

I would think it would be possible to tell if the one that just sold was original or not by the type of photo paper used , would it not ??
I know who purchased the photo so it is possible to do a in hand comparison between a original to see if papers are the same different .
 

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These 2 are also reenactor photos... The one posted of the ss guy with the camo fabric face mask and Russian sniper rifle wrapped in fabric is also questionable.
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Dave Roberts said:
OK , here is a copy of same photo , I have seen several of this reprint sell over past few years . I never bought a copy because of the Eagle Swastika on box and it screamed fake/reprint . As for the one we are discussing now it does differ from the one I posted slightly . I did not purchase the photo knowing what I knew about the reprints .

I would think it would be possible to tell if the one that just sold was original or not by the type of photo paper used , would it not ??
I know who purchased the photo so it is possible to do a in hand comparison or between an original to see if papers are the same different .
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LOL. When I originally saw the photo I told myself “All it’s missing is a big Nazi eagle on the boxes”. There you go.

An education for photo collectors.
 
Ok noob question. This appears to be a civilian Zeiss zielvier, is that the case, and is it a low or high turret? Picture is not mine. I also commented under the turret specific page to get clarity on this photo.
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Madhatter_86 said:
This appears to be a civilian Zeiss zielvier, is that the case, and is it a low or high turret?
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A personal guess, the shape of the front base reminds me more of the LT than the HT. And if it was a Zielvier scope, then it most likely (if not for blc+ coded Zielvier with sunshade) it is LT anyway.

Also according to Robert Spielauer the height where the bevel in the rear ring lookthrough part starts is lower (about the middle), versus in the top half on later rings what Robert claims to be late war. According to that this picture then it isn't late war.
 
Absolut said:
A personal guess, the shape of the front base reminds me more of the LT than the HT. And if it was a Zielvier scope, then it most likely (if not for blc+ coded Zielvier with sunshade) it is LT anyway.

Also according to Robert Spielauer the height where the bevel in the rear ring lookthrough part starts is lower (about the middle), versus in the top half on later rings what Robert claims to be late war. According to that this picture then it isn't late war.
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Photo appears to be 43 at the earliest based on equipment. I am still undecided if it has the sunshade or not, it appears far too short in the front to be that.
 
Front barrel band appears to be not the H style milled, but the solid mid-war type.

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remembered this particular sniper photo shoot and made some better quality scans for study hd sniper 2.jpg

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