Loewe

I am glad a known collector won the rifle, this rifle looks righteous but does contribute to screwing up a theory or two! (especially...

Anyone here get this? Hopefully it was one of our own. It would be good study this early, prewar period rifle...

Damn, I didn’t know Marc was a boomer.

I finally had the chance to add this rifle to trends page, I too noticed the close match (I long noticed the bunching of close units...

I sure did! Very cool. I would assume they live very similar lives for quite a while to both end up in such good shape.

Did you notice that his rifle is same letter block H, as well as that its unit marking is almost identically 51 respectively 53. R.R.?

That's correct. You can even look at the Württemberg contract Gew 98s and see a similar W. The House of Württemberg was the ruling...

That one is a gem Georg-- thanks for posting the pics. To my knowledge, the 1871 Infantry Gewehr, Jägerbüchse, and Carbines all were...

That's a really nice one. You usually don't see them in that kind of condition. I've got one but it's in much rougher shape...

... forum only lets me attach 15 pictures, hence the last picture in a separate post. There are many more parts that have serials on...

At a recent gun show I saw a nice rifle which didn't fit my field of collection - but to the one of a very dear collector friend. So...

Paul pretty much nailed it, as usual! I'll just add that you can see some neat diversity in unit markings on some of these-- naturally...

Thanks Paul! This one had been with its prior owner for many years, I'm told. He purchased it a long time ago directly from a family...

The Peoples Republic of Massachusetts has a law on the books that requires you to have an LTC or FID (firearms identification) to own a...

This rifle is unrecorded, the highest 1st block known, though four earlier are known, - plus 6 a-blocks (4842/a is the high so far, -all...