Dresden Spandau 1916/17 9329

[joryfreeburg]

Here is a pretty sweet Dresden Sterngewehr that I picked up as a pretty heavy project rifle a while back on GB. You could tell by the photos that the receiver, bolt, stock and trigger guard all matched. You could also tell that the stock was pretty jacked up and had a really bad repair attempted at one point. It was missing several parts and the auction indicated that. I had to track down both bands, both trigger guard screws and locking screws, a hand guard, a follower and a safety. It wasn’t clear from the photos that the safety was missing, but it certainly was. I sent the stock to my wood guy and he pulled off an amazing job of resorting the all original piece of wood. The old repair wasn’t straight from the back band up and featured old glue and bad cracks…. My wood guy really is a magician IMHO! I better give a shout out to Frank (runner) here in the forum for helping me out with a few of these restoration original parts! I hope all of you enjoy how well it turned out as much as me…..
Receiver 9329
Barrel 9329
Front sight 29
Rear sight leaf 29
Sight slider 29
Ejector box 29
Trigger sear 29
Front barrel band 24 depot renumbered
Rear band 77
Trigger guard 9329
Trigger guard screws front 27 rear 21
Floor plate 29
Follower armorers replacement
Stock 9329
Hand guard 4133 Gew98 orginal
Butt plate 9329
Bayonet lug 29
Cleaning rod 27 or 29
Bolt body 9329
Extractor 29
Safety 25
Cocking piece 29
Bolt sleve 29
Firing pin 29 clipped

 

[joryfreeburg]

More of the Dresden….

 

[joryfreeburg]

Last few…..

 

[mauser1908]

This a fantastic example of a tough gun, Jory! It has a great look to it, and is a nice smattering of different makers; the parts seem to be half Simson, half Spandau. You also have a very early Siemens and Halske Receiver. I find the stock interesting as I was under the impression Simson adopted both features at the same time, seems they were like the consortium and adopted the take down first.

 

[chrisftk]

Great save Jory! I'm glad you listened to reason this time! Haha

Welcome to the Dresden club. I was very happy to see you, Cyrus and Sam all join within the last year. Pretty funny how that works out.

These are probably my favorite sterngewehre due to all their strange quirks; cool star, Saxon cypher, date and cypher on the buttplate, etc.

Here's the serial study on these. We've added considerably, but still very much a low volume maker and not many out there.

Dresden Sterngewehre Serial Numbers

An interesting Interarms imported SCW Gew popped up at auction recently. The receiver is Dresden assembled 1917/18 Simson & Co. Suhl. The barrel is a Weimar replacement, but the rest is mismatched. It sparked a discussion about serials when Chris mentioned that the number suffix should be 5. It...

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[OnlyMil]

Awesome job restoring this rifle Jory. Turned out great, and presents exceptionally well. Hard agree on that woodworking, I can't make out any kind of repair job.

 

[PrayingMantis]

Hell yeah, Jory, great pick up and wonderful restoration. Congrats on getting it. I’ll get this in the reference tonight!

 

[joryfreeburg]

Thanks Guys! It really turned out better than I had hopes for

 

[feldmütze]

A worthy project indeed, good pickup Rory!

 

[Tom H]

Nice pick up and rescue Jory!

 

[Loewe]

A perfect display of a worthy rifle - far fewer mysteries would exist with similar performances!

Dresden (and Saxony in general - of the four states...) offer the most mysteries rifle wise of this era, -although Bavaria is my favorite state of the empire, Saxony was no slouch and has a fascinating history , - just not as special compared with Bavaria as a whole, - but Dresden exceptionalism accounts for 90% of Saxon magnificent (a damn shame the 1945 bombing, they should have had Mass Murderer "Bomber Harris" in the dock next to the rest of the war criminals at Nuremberg...)

*** though to be fair, FtG was the precursor to Dresden destruction but at least FtG had a military reason as a basis...