1917 V.CHR.SCHILLING
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T, Very interesting rifle, though it seems to deviate from trends regarding the stock pattern, - the small B above the cypher typically moves to the normal pattern (large B under the acceptance) by the e-block of 1917, so a little retarded compared to known patterns, but I will have to make more comparisons to see how much flexibility exists... I am sure this is just an abnormality or one off (because all looks right) but for trends this is interesting (especially in that you catch all the important angles bolt lower flat and BC (though a shot of the wrist acceptance and lower buttstock pattern would be very helpful!)
A Suhl this nice is not easy to find in the US, though 1917's do tend to be easier to find nice than a 1916 (and Suhl made a lot more rifles in 1916 than 1917)
A Suhl this nice is not easy to find in the US, though 1917's do tend to be easier to find nice than a 1916 (and Suhl made a lot more rifles in 1916 than 1917)
Thank you! All very interesting, I trended the rifle and the e-block is the general change but there was one other case of the upper location of the "B" after the e-block of 1917, an L-block JPS, so this is not exceptional. There is a report of a 1918 also but I can't say I noticed it in time to evaluate its originality...
Really though trends are only a mere glimpse of what occured and I think your rifle is right and this may be a more common abnormal trend viewed across a fuller spectrum of original rifles...
Really though trends are only a mere glimpse of what occured and I think your rifle is right and this may be a more common abnormal trend viewed across a fuller spectrum of original rifles...
Absolut
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A very nice rifle @toulon44, Christian Schilling rifles are very rare and yours being all matching is double nice. Thank you for sharing it in here!
@Loewe, not sure what you mean by the 1918 rifle you didn't notice in time to evaluate it .. in 2014 I posted my Chr. Schilling Gew98 with 1918 receiver date in here (see HERE).
@Loewe, not sure what you mean by the 1918 rifle you didn't notice in time to evaluate it .. in 2014 I posted my Chr. Schilling Gew98 with 1918 receiver date in here (see HERE).
Georg, I meant I noted this other rifle in trends when addressing this rifle, - earlier I had trended this rifle and did some comparisons with the L-block and others in 1917, but when these new pictures arrived I didn't have that particular rifle on this laptop... I agree, VCS rifles seem much scarcer than JPS & CGH, regardless of year! (this is true in trends and observations over 20 years...)