BOOK: Handbook of Military Rifle Marks 1866 - 1950

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HANDBOOK OF MILITARY RIFLE MARKS 1866-1950
An Illustrated Guide to Identifying Military Rifles and Marks
New Second Edition
Richard A. Hoffman and Noel P. Schott

If you collect – or you’re even thinking of collecting – old military rifles, you need this book. The authors looked at hundreds of military rifles and combed through every book they could find to compile a concise publication with detailed drawings of military markings, accompanied by identifying the rifle it was found on. (Example: “#52: SS acceptance mark on the left chamber of an S/27 made K98k dated 1938.”)

The books starts with Argentina and – sixty-nine countries later – finishes with Yugoslavia. Even the military rifles of the Papal States are included. Includes an appendix of numerals in Western (1,2,3 etc.), Roman, Kanji-Chinese, Thai, Farsi, Egyptian Arabic and Nepali, as well as Russian (Cyrillic) Alphabet with English Equivalents.

Softcover; sixty pages, b/w illustrations. Mapleleaf Militaria Publications, St. Louis, MO, USA, 1998. No ISBN. SIGNED by both Hoffman and Schott. Good condition; front and back covers have begun to curl from use. (If you go to the Enfield-Stuff website page on Government Marks, you’ll see at least nineteen reasons why this book is a must-have for collectors.)

Price: $35