Question about a BCD4 mauser. oddball??

I'm still searching for a nice Mauser shooter for the fall and I ran across this BCD4 rifle on gunbroker. My issues with it are:
1: It doesn't seem to be numbered to the normal 1944 BCD system
2. The eagles are the small type like the ones found on DOT rifles, I read that Gustloff used large eagles
3. I don't see the normal E/749 found on other BCD rifles I've seen
Does anybody know if this is an Oddball rifle, re-arsenal restamp, or is my information just bad?
 

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Not Gustloff assembled but JP Sauer. That accounts for the anomalies you described - although standard for JPS in that period.
 
jps

saure was another maker who relied on parts for complete rifle production. They used erma and walther recievers. Then astra-werke receivers marked bcd4. The show up pretty much in the last three letter blocks saure produced in 44. There are also bcd4's with e/135 waffenamots. for mauser oberndorf production. But these are for more scarce and show up in the mauser no letter/N block of 44/45
 
ce/bcd

I found that and bid on it yesterday after I figured out what it was. But I was glad somebody out bid me. There was just more I didn't like about it than I liked.
 
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