![]() ![]() ![]() But then again, I really have nothing to lose. Pretty brave with thin evidence and so-so recall. So I’m going to go out on a limb (a thin and creaky one) and call this a Borsigwalde barrel, bolt and receiver. Again, IIRC, it’s like 1935 through early 1937 then again in ‘39 and/or ‘40. IIRC, the Waffenamt E/211 proofs were mostly used on Mauser Borsigwalde made K98s - and on non-K98 weapons. The Weimar proof marks on the barrel are the same as on two ‘38 Mauser Borsigwalde K98s in my collection. The stamped floor plate is Mauser Oberndorf made and from a much later rifle than the parts that can be identified. The “Mod.98” seems consistent with several German military manufacturers including both Mauser Oberndorf and Mauser Borsigwalde. However, you can kind of make out the last numeral of the SN, I would say it’s a “5” or “6”. Receiver seems to have been scrubbed of SN, year, manufacturer code and proofs.then reblued. ![]() Can’t see the TG so can’t speculate on its origin. You should check the bolt shroud, safety, ejector/bolt release to see if they match as well. Not an expert by any means and there are not, truly, enough photos to say much more but.here is what I see. I've got an album linked below with pictures of some of the markings I've found, but I'm not exactly sure where to start going to decode these. This one has a double claw mount installed, which has destroyed that stamping. I've looked at a couple of websites, and most seem to get information from an intact stamping on the top of the receiver. Value will depend upon condition and matching parts.Hey, my fiancee's had her Mauser for a couple years, and I was curious about the meaning of its markings. No Polish 'bnz' Radom Model 98/40's were made for the SS. Steyr, Mauser ('byf', 'svw') and Brno ('dot') were the last major producers of 98k's in 1944 and the Mauser and Brno output was dedicated to the German Army. 98k's for the SS earlier, but were diverted to StGw 44 production in early 1944. 98k's made by Steyr are dated with a '44' (1944) date code. Some factories had multiple offices, and some articles were made up of parts inspected at different factories, explaining multiple WaA numbers on a single firearm. The 'XXX' number was the number of the inspection office assigned by the German Army's Quartermaster Corps. The 'Eagle' mark over a 'WaA XXX' is the German military inspector's acceptance stamp. It also appears on war material made at factories under Steyr supervision, such as the Radom factory in Poland. The 'bnz' production code was assigned by Organization Todt to production of German war material at the Steyr factories in what had been Austria during most of WW II. ![]()
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