feldmütze
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I thought I'd report on the show for those here, especially regarding Gew98's. The highlight of the show was the Radfahrergeweher our WaPrüf (Craig B.) had on display. It was every bit as nice as I'd imagined. He said he might do his Colonial G98 next year.
There were the usual 8-10 G98's there. I met Denny Gaither and saw the '07 MO Gew98, he'd already sold it to a fellow at Bruce98k's table(s).
I picked up the '16 Danzig from Bruce, am working on cleaning/improving the bore today.
Scott B had a unit marked '99 Danzig at his table(s), a correct period matching rework, that I didn't thoroughly examine, so just set it back and didn't even inquire on the price. See explanation posted later in this thread.
There was a bolt m/m '17 Spandau Gew98m, rare Weimar naval proofed on the receiver and Nordsee marked on the bolt takedown tube. It had the worst duff cut repair I've ever seen, a few inches back from the rear band. It looked like a 5 year old child had used that gray colored JB Weld, and it was slathered on about 1/8" wide. He was asking $700, said he'd take $600. I've got a couple of extra Weimar Gew98 slings, one to Nordsee, but couldn't justify buying that trainwreck because I had a sling for it. I made a point Thursday to not go look at it again to be tempted. It was gone Friday morning, sold to one of Scott Bugan's table helpers. Anyway, it was a rare one.
I talked with our Amberg (Wolfang) a few times. He picked up a Gew98 scope with mounts on Thursday, and as I recall he said the scope was Gew #'d. Hopefully he was able to score some more goodies before leaving for that long haul back to Germany.
Jerry Coates was there but without his display of Gew98 snipers that he had last year. He's probably going to do a display next year of the 5 (or 6) Gew98's marked to the 146th Regiment that was in Palestine later in the war, if he can get some period photos for the display. As we were talking Mark Weringa came by, I introduced them, started again talking about those gewehrs from the 146th, and come to find out both Mark & Jerry were there at Navy Arms in 1992 when a big shipment of militaria came in, including the 146th Reg G98's. Mark was going though crates looking for rare ammo & scored quite alot. He thought alot of the stuff was from Lithuania. Jerry said they had a big box of cleaning rods, mostly Gew98, cheap. Sounds like it would have been a real opportunity to pick up Imperial goodies....
There were a few other Gew98's at the show, nothing specially & mismatched. I saw a few decent Gew88's & a bolt m/m Gew91. I did pick up a nice Gew98 lid with most of it's gray paint, fairly cheap. That's about it.
There were the usual 8-10 G98's there. I met Denny Gaither and saw the '07 MO Gew98, he'd already sold it to a fellow at Bruce98k's table(s).
I picked up the '16 Danzig from Bruce, am working on cleaning/improving the bore today.
Scott B had a unit marked '99 Danzig at his table(s), a correct period matching rework, that I didn't thoroughly examine, so just set it back and didn't even inquire on the price. See explanation posted later in this thread.
There was a bolt m/m '17 Spandau Gew98m, rare Weimar naval proofed on the receiver and Nordsee marked on the bolt takedown tube. It had the worst duff cut repair I've ever seen, a few inches back from the rear band. It looked like a 5 year old child had used that gray colored JB Weld, and it was slathered on about 1/8" wide. He was asking $700, said he'd take $600. I've got a couple of extra Weimar Gew98 slings, one to Nordsee, but couldn't justify buying that trainwreck because I had a sling for it. I made a point Thursday to not go look at it again to be tempted. It was gone Friday morning, sold to one of Scott Bugan's table helpers. Anyway, it was a rare one.
I talked with our Amberg (Wolfang) a few times. He picked up a Gew98 scope with mounts on Thursday, and as I recall he said the scope was Gew #'d. Hopefully he was able to score some more goodies before leaving for that long haul back to Germany.
Jerry Coates was there but without his display of Gew98 snipers that he had last year. He's probably going to do a display next year of the 5 (or 6) Gew98's marked to the 146th Regiment that was in Palestine later in the war, if he can get some period photos for the display. As we were talking Mark Weringa came by, I introduced them, started again talking about those gewehrs from the 146th, and come to find out both Mark & Jerry were there at Navy Arms in 1992 when a big shipment of militaria came in, including the 146th Reg G98's. Mark was going though crates looking for rare ammo & scored quite alot. He thought alot of the stuff was from Lithuania. Jerry said they had a big box of cleaning rods, mostly Gew98, cheap. Sounds like it would have been a real opportunity to pick up Imperial goodies....
There were a few other Gew98's at the show, nothing specially & mismatched. I saw a few decent Gew88's & a bolt m/m Gew91. I did pick up a nice Gew98 lid with most of it's gray paint, fairly cheap. That's about it.
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