Late Danzig 1917

mauser1908

mauser1908

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Hey Everyone! This is one that I've had for sometime now, but just got around to posting it. Marc was the connection on this one, big thanks! It's a pretty run of the mill late Danzig (LL block), it was made just before the date change so it was up my alley. While nothing spectacular, it's pretty well matching, less the handguard. It has a neat shrapnel ding to the rear sight and depot stock repair. This does bear assembly numbers on the magazine, I've never noticed their presence on late Danzig rifles before now.

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Rear sight leaf has Glasvisier inscription...wonder if they made too many and funneled them to issue rifle production. Cool gun!
 
joryfreeburg said:
Nice looking gun Sam… congrats
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hale1940 said:
I'm a big fan of this one. Very nice!
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Thanks guys, much appreciated!
Tom H said:
Rear sight leaf has Glasvisier inscription...wonder if they made too many and funneled them to issue rifle production. Cool gun!
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Thanks Tom, you're going to force me to write about my favorite topic, haha.

The short answer is, they did not overproduce them. The Gl.V. marking is exclusive to Danzig and Amberg. By the middle of 1917, the German Army had standardized few optical companies to complete sharfschützen. The most commonly encountered are Gortz, Emil Busch, Voigtländer, and Oigee. In conjunction, they standardized on two manufactures to fill orders for scharfschützen, Danzig and Amberg. The former probably handled all Prussian orders. 1917 and '18 bore the highest procurement of scharfschützengewehr. To meet demand, a system to identify suitable rifles needed to be developed. In our view (myself and a few others), the true purpose of the Gl.V. marking was to earmark a pool of rifles that were of suitable accuracy/ quality to fill orders for scharfschützengewehr. I think the association with the Glasvisier 16 is largely a misinterpretation of the term glass sight. The term "glass sight" likely means any optic. Beside the point, Zeiss made less than 7,000 Glasvisiers. A stable rear sight would have never been the sole basis by which it was paired with it's respective rifle.
 
A righteous rifle Sam, thanks for sharing. I really dig the late orange Danzig stocks. They sure do pop.

As for the serial number I have one thing to say: Nice.
 
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