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Help with Gew 98-style B.Blindee
Hohenzollern5
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I need help to identify this Gew 98-style rifle for restoration and possible value.
I recently purchased a barreled action that looks like a Gew 98 (i.e., 29" barrel, Lange Visor rollar coaster rear sight, receiver identical to standard Mauser Gew 98,). The problem is that the receiver ring has been scrubbed and the main marks are on the barrel near the receiver ring, they are:
1) "B.Blindee"
2) "R"(sideways with a crown over it),
3) "T" (sideways with crown over it),
4) Then a sideways shield looking mark with perhaps a fancy "L" (looks like the military FN "EGB" hallmark),
5) The receiver has that shield looking mark with perhaps the fancy "L" and the original serial number but nothing else.
6) An import mark on barrel reads "St. Albens VT, Ger 98 Mauser"
7) This barreled receiver does not fit into a standard Gew 98 stock as it does not quite fit at the taper of the receiver ring to the barrel and the second taper of the barrel.
Any help that anybody could provide me with would be much obliged
I recently purchased a barreled action that looks like a Gew 98 (i.e., 29" barrel, Lange Visor rollar coaster rear sight, receiver identical to standard Mauser Gew 98,). The problem is that the receiver ring has been scrubbed and the main marks are on the barrel near the receiver ring, they are:
1) "B.Blindee"
2) "R"(sideways with a crown over it),
3) "T" (sideways with crown over it),
4) Then a sideways shield looking mark with perhaps a fancy "L" (looks like the military FN "EGB" hallmark),
5) The receiver has that shield looking mark with perhaps the fancy "L" and the original serial number but nothing else.
6) An import mark on barrel reads "St. Albens VT, Ger 98 Mauser"
7) This barreled receiver does not fit into a standard Gew 98 stock as it does not quite fit at the taper of the receiver ring to the barrel and the second taper of the barrel.
Any help that anybody could provide me with would be much obliged
Comments
Photos of your rifle including some of the details would be very helpful.
B.Blindee is the Belgian proof mark for jacketed lead bullets.
Here is a photo example with an interpretation:
And another example:
Punches (proof stamps).
They are the punches of the punch proof of Liege which I detail as follows:
Spangled ELG in a crowned oval: acceptance - 1893/1968.
PV surmounted of a stylized lion: test with powder without smoke - 1898/1968.
Perron: inspection - 1853 until today.
EL in cursive letters: provisional test - 1852 until today.
R crowned: rifled bores - 1894/1968.
M spangled: countermark of the controller Couchant Louis (1923/1952) - 1877/1968.
B.BLINDEE: rifled bores of gauge higher than 22 for lined balls - 1910/1968.
9x57: calibre barrels.
1Kg685: weight of the gun which can draw from the powders without smoke (weapons smooth) to the gram - 1924 until today.
Y: yearly letter of the year 1946.
27.347: job number of the weapon.
Best.