Search results

Thanks for the addition as it supports 8714 reported unit mark! I am glad research is more important than our slight disagreement over Loewe (silly argument anyway...); I have long thought your presence here is very beneficial; plus showing considerable skill in posing argument, much like your...

Well by the barrel alone it is late 1935 at the earliest, the stock looks originally WMO15 ish but i would have to review trends to be sure. Naturally this means (the barrel alone) show this is something from the middle rearmament phase (which funding occurred b4 Hitlers rise - actually Hitler...

I want to reiterate that I do not know that the paper is a fraud, - I do think that it is very unlikely two sellers overlooked mention of it but then again the impossible happens in politics on a daily basis... the rifle itself is fine and rather a rarity in this condition, it is no "shooter...

I want to say that my intention is not to take a "crappy" on this rifle but I do question the papers, - not my area of interest at all but some here might have a valid opinion In short it could be legit but I do find it strange it was not mentioned until 2020 though it is true 2016 & 2017...

2017 text, better pics but too few and no papers - it did sell though this time but the seller is a mystery: SOLD – VERY RARE CODE AX41 K98k RIFLE……ALL MATCHING…..HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER! $2,950.00 Out of stock SKU: 01/03/2017-2Categories: German, Long Guns, New Arrivals for MONDAY, JANUARY 9...

2016 text (crappy pics if you want them- no paper that I saved): Mauser K98K AX 41 WW2 German Rifle Made by Erma Bolt Action 8mm cal. Kar98K Mauser rifle KJVA A+(4) Add Favorite Seller Seller's Other Items Used Condition FFL is required Ask Seller a Question Watch Current Bid $950.00...

In 2016 and 2017 this rifle was listed w/o the BB paper, no mention was made in either auction that I saw but the 2020 paper was listed and photographed... not saying I know the facts with certainty, but maybe this raises some suspicions as it didn't make reserve in 2016 or 2017 attached find...

hly - Kraftf & Schüll, Ketten-Drahtwaren, Düren m/c with clear waffenamt is worth more than a run of the mill variation... first I have seen this exact pattern, seen e/280 but typically this WaA carry the ord-code (hly instead of K&S) Nice rifle and maker-date, especially for an rc price!

By pure happenstance: Jeff shared pictures in 2006 (before the forum but for the yahoo group that imo led to this forum); what is interesting is Gew98.com 3 months later caught an inquiry for a sister rifle with a close unit match no pictures but some text: Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006...

I haven't kept up with new discoveries so there are probably more awaiting inclusion, but small in numbers if any: Simson 9 (with two additional reports absent serial, one Wolfgang reporting so legit report but can't be trended): 197, 426, 524, 814, 1593, 1849, 2222, 2599, 3567 WOK 15 - 8...

Jdt, excellent example and it is great to see you offer to help mating up bolts in an exchange; Bruce was on the right page identifying this range (maker-date-block) for KM, 4 examples and a Norge (KM probably sources these) is known. **there are also two KM in the d-block of 38 and although a...

Makes perfect sense Chris (VCS make stocks), - the Suhl makers (CGH, VCS, JPS + the outsider Simson) are the most interesting of the makers for me, though I like the arsenals a great deal too, especially the weird variation's) Hell what am I saying, - I like them all but for different reasons...

First position is typically the receiver maker (hardening), the latter two are mating, and usually the assembler. (from recollection anyway, like every post I haven't been a real researcher in5-10 years, I mix details up a bit...)

Anything special about the ax? Can't go wrong specializing in Suhl makers!

An astonishingly fine example! CGH was the lead firm of the consortium, but was the least present in 1915 of the three (9 including this one with about 30 1915's recorded overall - 11 JPS with VCS surprisingly at 12 which is surprising because VCS is a laggard in every subsequent block...)...

That has long been true.... true in the 1980's, true in the 1990's, many deals are done b4 the show is open to the public, or so once was.

It's wartime Amberg (Bavarian) but dating it is difficult with these pictures. The barrel code I can't make out with certainty but it is a Bohler blank which incredibly common for Amberg. The numbers following the BO would narrow it considerably, so too the receiver code...

Pure speculation, but I would lean Amberg; probably Q-block as although I favored y- block initially Amberg only made the Y-blocks in 1917 and then barely, plus the suffix does quite fit. So best guess is 1916 or 1917 Amberg q-block based upon the fonts and TG acceptance with seems to match and...

I agree, the bolt is fine but is incorrect for this maker-date, MB and WMO were using FN bolts primarily and by 1942 WaA655 was not typical at all... (some e/135 bolt show up but FN is typical by this range at WMO, - with MB FN bolts are the norm - and this is not depot work, imo of course...

I do not think this is in anyway period work (nor humper inspired) just a normal attempt to make a bolt mismatcher closer in appearance (it probably had an FN bolt out of the factory...) ** the above comment alone is not worth posting but the fact I have some auction pictures from 2014 might...