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Dick Winters G/K43

ls6man

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Hi all

Has anyone seen the G/K43 attributed to Dick Winters? I saw a couple of FB photos...looks to have a mount and scope...mount serial is 7616 (I believe) and has a Durfol hand guard.

Just curious about it....

Greg
 
I remember that being offered on gunbroker a few years back for stupid money, it wasn’t very convincing to me at the time as far as being legit, like paperwork with incorrect spelling or incorrect unit description. Personally, I steer clear of celebrity items like that, 99% are dreams of disillusioned rubes. People can be convinced of anything.


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Hi all

Has anyone seen the G/K43 attributed to Dick Winters? I saw a couple of FB photos...looks to have a mount and scope...mount serial is 7616 (I believe) and has a Durfol hand guard.

Just curious about it....

Greg

I saw it too. Nice looking G43. However, I'm curious about the stock. It looks sanded and varnished.
 
I think it was on gunbroker being sold out of Alaska a few months ago. I feel like there may have been some type of issue with it (sanded etc) or maybe the provenance wasn't solid? Can't remember.

Saw it on Facebook today though.

Yall beat me to it while I was writing!
 
I saw the link on Facebook to Gettysburg Museum or something like that over the weekend. Yes, I remember seeing it on Gunbroker a while back too and, as others have said, the provenance was rather shoddy which left it questionable.


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I feel as though there are like 3 of these out there. I have had multiple people say that they are looking at a Winter’s attributed K43. I would like to see the trail of provenance. Should be easy to confirm if it was his. I know he brought weapons back, so this could definitely be one. I would just like to see the paper trail.
 
with me if the "item" has no documented provenience, then its just a story.

I have even seen , signed notary documents, anyone can get a notary to sign such a document
 
Well here is one sighting

Have at this, gents. I saved these shots from GunBroker from Nov 2018. Couldn't believe my eyes.
 

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Thanks for saving those photos!

You would think there would be more paperwork.....maybe a bill of sale....
 
http://www.k98kforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=230029&d=1581959881

"....also has 2 Nazi coins probably used to adjust scope."

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Bull

Bob Hoffman was Major Winter's best friend. They both lived about 20 minutes from me. I know Bob.

I asked about this before......complete BS.
 
Bob Hoffman was Major Winter's best friend. They both lived about 20 minutes from me. I know Bob.

I asked about this before......complete BS.

But there’s a chance the Nazi sniper coins are real and belonged to Major Winters?
 

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