Banner Mauser Help with ID please

[Patrick Chadwick]

Sorry, I can't pinch photos from a published book. The example looks like yours, but with intact stamps.

The rifle is basically matching, but the bolt assembly is a mixture. This is not typical for a captured weapon for any regular army, as if a replacement or other captured bolt had been fitted, it would have been renumbered to match the rifle number.

This is probably a case of a rifle being confiscated after WWII, hence the erased Nazi-era stamps, and the person who handed it in may have deliberately "lost" the bolt, thinking "if I can't use it, no-one else is going to!"

[Sunnyblueskies]

Here are a few more pictures of this particular rifle.

This is a close up of the star stamp on the front of the barrel. You can clearly see it covers another mark.


Here is the marking on the underside of the barrel. The following picture is also the barrel, close to where the handguard sits.



The following 3 are different views of the rear sight. Bottom part marked with K and S, top part marked with the rifle S/N and an S in the center.



Next few are various marks on the receiver:



And a few more of the stock itself: Note the 'barely there' Mauser banner on the left side of the stock and the H 2 (or P or 5) on the stock end.



Previous one being again a close up of the star stamp, this time I believe over a WwA83, can't see it too clear in the picture though.

Anybody can read all those marks?