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moretoys

Can someone tell me how to identify my 8mm mausers origin.Is there a chart that shows the different coat of arms. There is no writeing only numbers in various locations.The insignia has a torch with 99k 1942 and a star above the flame

Wehrmacht_45

Your Mauser was most likely originally a German made K98 that was captured and re-arsenaled by Yugoslavia in the years after WW2. Your coat of arms is the Yugoslavian coat of arms. Unfortunately this means your Mauser K98 does not at this time have much collector value. The 1942 could be right, but most of these were done in 1948, the roll mark might be a little weak on yours. The easy way to tell these reworked German ones is to look at the handguard. German ones will have a hand guard that starts at the front of the front receiver, and are only a half hand guard, the Yugo Mausers will have a full length hand guard starting at the front end of the receiver, and stretching past/around the front sight to the forward barrel band.

Yours might be a model 24/47 if the bolt handle is straight and the top hand guard goes all the way to the rear of the rear sight. It would also most likely have a flat butt plate.

It might be a model 48 if it is just like the 24/47 but with a bent bolt and a cupped butt plate.


for pictures look at surplusrifle.com

MIKE WISKEY

you could also try (mausercentral.com) they have a data base of crests

Xracer

"Is there a chart that shows the different coat of arms?"

Yup....in the 38th Edition of the Blue Book, pages 1104 to 1114.