Mystery magazine???

I have this mystery mag which I have no idea for what it's intended for other than it looks to be for a smg of some description and it appears to be for use with 9mm pistol rounds. I purchased it at a show because I thought, working off memory, that it looked like it could be suitable to display with my U.K. deactivated Hotchkiss smg but as soon as I got home and compared it, I realised that it's not. It didn't cost a great deal of money and so I'm not out of pocket but I am very curios as to what application it's for. It doesn't appear to be for anything common that I've seen before and the profile is almost triangular.

I am open to any thoughts or ideas as to what it may be for. Thanks for any information and help.

It does look very familiar......probably a Carl Gustav M45 derivative which was sold under licence to the Egyptians, its the crown and C stamp that throws me there. It was a 9x19mm 36 round mag in Luger/Parabellum and NATO. Not sure what happened to it after the Isreali's captured thousands during one of their wars. Might be miles off

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Originally Posted by Gil Boyd

probably a Carl Gustav M45 derivative

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That does seem correct, some one of the group of Swedish K mags, or Port Said SMG as the Egyptians called them.

Egyptian K I believe

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Originally Posted by Gil Boyd

Egyptian K

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Yes, I only meant the pattern.

Thanks Gil and Jim for identifying the magazine. I wouldn't have guessed the Carl Gustav/Egyptian K smg mag. The wire stock arrangement looks very similar to the Belgium Vigneron smg.

The magazine is definitely Swedish, not Egyptian. The Crown-C on the spine is an inspector's or acceptance stamp denoting the Carl Gustafs rifle factory in Sweden. The same stamp appears on the gun itself, over the chamber.

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Here's the one I had in 1980, a Swedish Carl Gustav SMG. About new when I got it but not when I returned it. Note the mag.

For those of you familiar with the area, it's the old refugee camp up by old Nicosia airport. Summer of 1980, 41 degrees Celcius...nice...

Thanks for posting the pictures, Jim. I'm interested in the bayonet. Was this bayonet used with just this smg or was it used with a number of different weapons?

It was issued along with, I was shocked because I had one for years myself and didn't know what it was for. There's a carbine it started out issued along with, you can find by using it's original name. Third set of pics down the page. Swedish Mauser - Wikipedia

Here's the official poop according to Bayonet World... Sword bayonet for use with the 6.5 mm. M1894/14 Mauser Carbine. This bayonet also mounts to the 9 mm. Carl Gustaf Submachine Gun m/1945C (Kulsprutepistol m/1945C).

Here's the page... Bayonets of Sweden

Thanks for that information Jim. That's one bayonet that I don't have in my collection, yet.