Second opinion on a Kriegsmarine K98 S/147/G

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Illen

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Hi everyone,

I'm into buying my first Mauser K98 and I've come across this piece. I would very much appreciate a second opinion on this one.
The rifle is said to be matching numbers and have the original bluing.

These are the only pictures I have so far.

Sincerely,
Illen

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As Dave said more photos needed, but from what I see it looks promising. However, we can already tell its not matching. Bolt release it '70', and the rifle serial is '25'. If the rest of the rifle is competely matching though then its still a very cool find. A very early gun and not the easiet code to find, especially in that condition. What is the seller asking?
 
I would compare this rifle to Peter's rifle in the picture section. Looks promising, but as Hale stated not completely matching.

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S/147/g

The weather was nice so I took a couple of pictures.
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Thank you all for your feedback. I’ve been asking for more pictures which I hope to come back to you with.

You are right, the bolt release is ‘70’, I should have seen that.
hale1940 said:
As Dave said more photos needed, but from what I see it looks promising. However, we can already tell it’s not matching. Bolt release it '70', and the rifle serial is '25'. If the rest of the rifle is competely matching though then it’s still a very cool find. A very early gun and not the easiet code to find, especially in that condition. What is the seller asking?
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The asking price is 1850$, would it be a fair price IF the rest of the gun matches?

/ Illen
 
Illen said:
Thank you all for your feedback. I’ve been asking for more pictures which I hope to come back to you with.

You are right, the bolt release is ‘70’, I should have seen that.

The asking price is 1850$, would it be a fair price IF the rest of the gun matches?

/ Illen
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IF the rest of gun is matching and correct, then I would say $1850 is quite a good price. Its a very early gun, tough code, fleet marked, and appears to be in quite nice shape.
 
hale1940 said:
IF the rest of gun is matching and correct, then I would say $1850 is quite a good price. Its a very early gun, tough code, fleet marked, and appears to be in quite nice shape.
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Thanks Hale. I’ll try to retrieve some more photos for a more accurate assessment.
 
mrfarb said:
That’s a killer price imo. Rifles that saw use had parts replaced, in the past to some purist the small mismatched parts like that hurt but in the big picture it’s nothing. IMO that price is a 50% discount.
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I would 100% agree with that. A rifle like that would be listed on pre98.com or Legacy Collectibles between $4,000 and $5000. The most common mismatched parts I have seen on matching rifles is either the bolt ejector, follower, safety, the magazine floor plate, and maybe a barrel band. But these are parts that could be easily broken or lost. Remember these are a war rifles after all.
 
To wrap things up.. The store was not interested in sending me more photos so I ended up not buying the gun. It appears now to be sold. I didn't chance as a potential purchase would have involved shipping the gun from one country to another.
 
Illen said:
To wrap things up.. The store was not interested in sending me more photos so I ended up not buying the gun. It appears now to be sold. I didn't chance as a potential purchase would have involved shipping the gun from one country to another.
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Well sorry to hear you were not able to get this k98k, but there will be another one. They're just like a bus before you know it another one will come along.
 
The stock wrist looks over stamped to me and the cocking piece looks like a 35, so that’s 3 different numbers we can see and a lot we can’t. It’s a sharp looking rifle and being so early and KM, very desirable especially at the price but I would want to get more detailed pix before I would buy it.
 
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