I'm ploughing through the volumes enjoying taking my time so I am a bit behind the knowledge front...! just a thought, because this Gew98 barrel is an ordnance replacement would it have had the serial number stamped in to match the receiver or is this an after thought (post war fake etc)?
So I guess my question is do ordnance replacements parts have serial numbers stamped in.
Incidentally, this example has 3 WaA63 stamps on the right side and '02' on top
thanks a lot
Fwiw there's a byf43 with a '41 dated 'dsh' spare barrel by F. Janek with multiple e/76 (at least 2 shown). Any chance they were doing the rebarrel work? Maybe under contract?
great thanks a lot....the barrel code is dsh 7 40 Pi then there's one WaA76 next to this code and 3 WaA63 on right side below the sight. Theres also another tiny serial number on the underside of the barrel just behind the sight hood...its hard to make out looks like XXX STRA
Without seeing the rifle or having a detailed description we can only speculate, largely based upon what we already know of have seen. There is no reason to believe this is a G98 barrel, I doubt dsh/Janecek would have made them, further they would be the finisher, not a blank supplier (usually they used Poldihütte, formerly A-H but later Czech after WWI, they probably supplied the vast majority of barrel material supplied to Czech based operations. The Reichswerke took over all of these operations and they tended to collaborate closely within that system).
Poldi is typically identified by the abbreviation "Pi", not by their ordnance codes (which their two facilities were assigned, - generally raw forging suppliers used abbreviations of their name, not ordnance codes, Ruhrstahl often an exception), much of this information should be in the books, Volume I & III anyway, it is still accurate.
Suppliers of steel using "D" or Dö would be Döhlen (Saxony, not Czech). Poldi nor Janecek would not have used "D" alone. Perhaps it was a partial code that I attributed to Poldi or dsh based upon other factors (waffenamt or trends)
Serialing the barrel varies, obviously time and facility would play a role, but again we are not talking about this rifle specifically (as there is no rifle information).