DWM 1918 pp-block?

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Telperion

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Hi there,

I can buy a DWM 1918 Mauser, in the "pp"-block. The rifle is heavily reworked (Gew 98 M-style). I tend to put it into the postwar-era, but that's just a guess.
Has anybody seen anything similar? Who would have applied such a high serial number? Sorry, no pic of the RR.

Thanks and greetings

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Hey B--

Off the bat, it wouldn't be WW1 production. DWM didn't get much more than "b" block in 1918. My guess would be a leftover receiver used in a postwar/ 1920s build-- looks to be a commercial wehrmann gewehr to me. I've seen many such rifles.
 
Yeah, thanks, thought so, too (postwar). Well it's in 8 mm Mauser (8 X 57 IS), and at least the rings are numbered to the rifle, but everbody could have done this. The rear sight ramp is from the Mauser 1934 production (S/42 K).
 
I misread your first post, my mind just jumped to post-war wehrmann due to the look of the receiver. (I've got a couple WMO wehrmann post-war that look nearly identical finish-wise)
I can't say who did it based on limited pictures but definitely postwar assembled
 
Gew lenght. Is was thinking of Spain, would fit to the finish, but their numbering System was different. Muzzle is as it should be.

The pp-suffix is odd, imho.
 
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Telperion said:
Gew lenght. Is was thinking of Spain, would fit to the finish, but their numbering System was different. Muzzle is as it should be.

The pp-suffix is odd, imho.
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Yeah almost makes me wonder if that suffix or even SN is spurious. It would make sense given the ugly finish on the receiver.
 
Hello all, .I don't think pp is Factory suffix. Not right font . Matches more to markings on left of it. What might the significance of 12 72 be?. Maybe i should have kept away from this one. lol
 
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December 1972 it was proofed in Ulm most real, probably resalled by Frankonia or other firm.
 
Telperion said:
Hi there,

I can buy a DWM 1918 Mauser, in the "pp"-block. The rifle is heavily reworked (Gew 98 M-style). I tend to put it into the postwar-era, but that's just a guess.
Has anybody seen anything similar? Who would have applied such a high serial number? Sorry, no pic of the RR.

Thanks and greetings

T
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Easiest way to answer this is the RR and BC, that is the only sureway, but if this is all that there is, there are only two mfg that reached the pp-block, Danzig and Erfurt, Erfurt w/ 98a holds the heights, but Danzig in 1917 reached the high oo block. If legit that is where I would focus but the bigger question is the receiver fp (Danzig is highly distinctive and does weird pattern routinely), - 5 oo-blocks are well reported nearly to pp-rollover so it is possible (it is common next year carry on with the preceding serial pattern- so too utilizing other mfg receivers)

Anyway intriguing, but there are significant problems if these are the only pics available, I would not think this worth inclusion in trends w/o more data...
 
Three of the Danzig oo-blocks have numeral 1 in the serial, these are all footed ones, not likely this carries on from that pattern, - intriguing but too little to base a scenario on...
 
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