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Haha .. I simply love this forum for discussing such small details and sub-sub-sub-variants in great depth, comparing them to others...

Not buying the rifle thru the mail fwiw. Will be inspecting in person later in the week and will take photos in hand.

Both of these rifles are not "typical" for WK XX. Most of the guns use a larger font, and the X's are serifed. The "early" three digit...

Much Much appreciated and thanks for breaking it down too. May have saved me a lot of money.

I thought the same upon viewing his pictures the first time. However, looking at them again they are same oddly oversized as mine, and...

CJ, the grind and flat of the bolt root and apparent unfinished and unblued nature of it is not appropriate to period depot work. The...

Thanks Hambone. Photos are unfortunately poor for sure. Is there anything in particular giving you pause about the bolt? This was of...

I’d pay close attention to the bolt numbering CJ. I’d want to take the bolt down and check all that out. Compare, e.g., to Absolut’s...

I wouldn't be surprised. Fingers crossed, looking forward to what you can show when you have it in hands!

Thank you for the photo. Perhaps this one’s obscured by the sling also. Here are the limited photos I have of the rifle but will have it...

That would be a cool rifle Marc……as well as the OP’s rifle….nice gun

If legit, LUCKY!!

Pulled it from the rack. Initially would had said no serial number at all on rear band, but then pulled the sling (hardly ever had taken...

Looking at possibly buying a very similar rifle (serial 402) with the same barrel top acceptance. Rifle in question is built on a 1916...

Picked this up at a local gunshop, pretty excited as the typical gewehrs that I normally find local to me are always hacked to pieces...