1916 JP Sauer

Totally gorgeous rifle of a rarer maker. Someone really took care of this. Not to mention your photography is stunning and a thing of envy lol.
 
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RyanE said:
Exceptional! You don't see many Gew98s in that shape.
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That was my first thought... Suhl can be damn tough to find this nice! The "demigod" of Modell 98 trend research (Mark Weinriga) once told me he found JPS the most difficult of maker to find, - not sure in what context (Suhl or across the board, but either way a JPS in this state is not to easy to acquire...)

** this rifle has a report from a well regarded collector in June 2005 (I had no idea it was this nice and original...); second report was in March 2022, probably from this forum but no text saved. A search may pull up the post but all I saved was the pictures and noted "98k"
 
Looks familiar. One of the nicer condition Gewehrs I've seen. In my experience, it's rare to find them with any original blue finish on the upper band that this one has.
 
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Thanks Paul and everyone, I figured it had been known, with the way it was acquired, tough to pull anything out of the woods these days.

Otto, I take it this was yours? Yes, I agree, the bands are quite nice. It’s tucked next to some prewar commercials now. 😁
 
Yes, I owned it, posted it a couple of years ago. My pics were nowhere near as nice as yours though. It did come literally out of the woodwork. A friend's brother was a builder. He was renovating an old house, found the rifle. The owners told him to get rid of it (I live deep behind enemy lines in a very liberal area). He gave it to his brother, who called me because he knew I like guns. He wanted to know the caliber and how he could get some ammo so he could shoot it. He described it, I told him I should look at it before he thought of shooting it. I saw it, started peeling out the hundreds until he cried uncle.

Congrats, it's a very beautiful Gewehr.
 
Great to hear some history on it thanks! I was kind of out collecting around that timeframe, so I missed that, apologies for the rerun. Now you have my curiosity up, any chance there were other rifles found in this house? About a year and a half ago I bought another 1912 Sauer that was found in a wall on the east coast, that’s still completely untouched, and was told there were multiple rifles found at the time.IMG_9222.jpeg
 
ottodog8 said:
Yes, I owned it, posted it a couple of years ago. My pics were nowhere near as nice as yours though. It did come literally out of the woodwork. A friend's brother was a builder. He was renovating an old house, found the rifle. The owners told him to get rid of it (I live deep behind enemy lines in a very liberal area). He gave it to his brother, who called me because he knew I like guns. He wanted to know the caliber and how he could get some ammo so he could shoot it. He described it, I told him I should look at it before he thought of shooting it. I saw it, started peeling out the hundreds until he cried uncle.

Congrats, it's a very beautiful Gewehr.
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"Peeling out the hundreds till he cried uncle" that gave me a chuckle 🤣
 
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