Crown Jewel of my collection; matched bringback svwMB K98k

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Originally Posted by majspud

A total of 18,000 svw MB’s were produced, but only 2,500 were German produced and proofed. The remainder were produced under French occupation to rearm France before the allies blew up the factory. Non import, exceedingly rare, and un-improvable.
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I don't know where you got your info on production numbers, but methinks they are wrong! WHY do I say this? Simple, each production run on ser nrs was 10,000 and your rifle is a c suffix = 39201st rifle made marked SVW in 1945. By the way the original SVW codes were dated 45. The MB date code did not come into being until very early 45.
SVW coded rifles are not "exceeding rare", but are very uncommon.
Sarge

I don't know where you got your info either. The SN was ALL of '45 production to that point, this included ALL the roll stamps changed from byf45 to svw45 to svwMB with the latter the rarest. B and C blocks were coming out concurrently. Information from Steves and Karem, Kriegsmodel.

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