Thanks mauser99. Looking for a scope and mount...but pretty happy this way too. This is how it came back from Bertchesgarden where the vet picked it up!
this n block would have a round edge phosphate e/359 proofed mount.. with a ddx k43 marked scope would be most appropriate for the mount I.M.H.O. I think I know someone who has a spare or two..
Very nice find! I have a couple of spare completely original late war mounts with ddx scopes that are close to your ser#. Contact me if you are interested.
A lot of WW2 vets treated these things with not much care, including my own Father. I have German officers dove head sword he took from a house in Frankfurt that now has pink paint splatters on the scabbard from when he painted my sister's bedroom in the 1950's. I have a beautiful stag gripped Eickhorn dress bayonet that he sharpened for deer hunting! Ten years ago I bought an early SS officers degen with green paint on the hilt, grip and portepee (see Tom Whitman's Dress Daggers and Swords of the SS, page 365).
The G41 I got last weekend even has a few white paint splatters on the butt.