My MO Gew98, 1914

[CLG]

A few months ago i posted my MO 1918 Gew98 in almost unissued condition. Here is the “bookend” to that one, my 1914 MO, also in very nice condition for it’s year. All matching but for the front guard screw and the rod. Anyone have a #90 front guard screw and or rod? The rod in The rifle is #04 for trade purposes!

 

[chrisftk]

Charles-- beautiful rifle in a tough to find year! What a stunner!

Check with Jeff Noll on the cleaning rod if you haven't already. He's helped me find 4-5 of the ones I needed.

To have a 14 and 18 in original trim is a fantastic set, let alone in great shape. Very cool!

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[mauser1908]

That's such a nice rifle, extraordinarily nice for a 1914 dated rifle! As Chris said, check with Jeff, I got like five matching rods from him as well. I will also check my rifles to see if I have 90.

 

[donki1967]

Very nice rifle! I feel like he never saw war...Thank you for this beautiful pics

 

[cj556]

Gorgeous example. I hope to find a nice 1914 dated rifle someday.

 

[CLG]

Thanks for recommending Jeff, he replied promptly but no luck. The hunt continues!

 

[jack944]

Wow

How did it survive that long.... Great looking piece.

 

[Warrior1354]

That is an awesome Gewehr and being this nice for a 1914 dated piece is very rare. Thanks for sharing too.

I will have to check my rod collection I may have your matching rod!

 

[CLG]

Many thanks for taking a look, and that blank front guard screw is driving me nuts too! Best, Charles

 

[Loewe]

It is amazing you had such good judgement so long ago... few can say they have an old collection with so many stunners. Most made a lot a mistakes back in the early days (pre-1990), I know I made more mistakes and bought more stinkers than right calls... This detailed display is also well done, showed everything needed! It is especially helpful in that so few are this original, matching and well illustrated, so trends are pretty sparse in some of these features. If possible, check the buttplate top screw area for suffix and what is the safety acceptance? C/P or C/F or ? Also, most important, the lower buttstock acceptance (under serial), important because so few are known for 1914 (an a-block and e-block have C/P, another is weakly struck and indecipherable, but while a good number are known most are either dogs or mismatchers or both...)

This is probably the finest I have recorded, probably one of the finest known anywhere...

 

[Warrior1354]

I checked out my cleaning rods by the way I have 96 and 99 but not 90. But I will keep my eyes open for you.

 

[CLG]

Many thanks for the kind words, Paul. I knew you would want the butt plate screw area and I just got lazy when up loading pictures! Here are the three areas you asked for. I leave the interpretation up to you.

 

[CLG]

Here a a last few photos I had not bothered to up load. I may be wrong, but in addition to milling marks I think I see a fair bit of hand filing as well, particularly in the rear receiver and trigger area. How much hand fitting went into these I wonder?

 

[Loewe]

Thanks! This is an excellent display and is especially helpful in its details... it is the second highest known, the highest 6750/i and is also largely matching (not nearly as nice as this one). It too has C/Q acceptance under the cypher and lower stock, the wrist is the same as yours also. Earlier rifles have some different acceptance patterns, so it is good to see anther so close to yours with the same pattern (I believe WMO remains fairly stable in acceptance patterns within ranges, the break is the biggest problems... you just don't know where they cut off and start or how much overlap exists.. with the 98k we have so many more rifles to compare it is rather easier, but these G98's are anything but common in upper grades, at least by comparison to 98k)


A truly exceptional rifle, - we (I) say that fairly often, but this actually the case in this rifles relative rarity and condition... really nice G98's are rather difficult to come by pre-1917, even 1916 are obtainable, but pre-1916's are just damn difficult, especially the years in the lead up to WWI, someone who focused 1909-1915 could spend a lifetime trying to gather up high grade examples of the mfg/years and never come close to filling them all, even with deep pockets...