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FIVE (5) QUESTIONS: M1 Rifle / M1 Rifle Items / M14 Rifle Items
Thanks to the owners of the Military Surplus Collectors Forums for giving CULVER’S SHOOTING PAGE a new home. The “old” CSP was great, and it looks like the “new” CSP is equally great. I made quite a few posts on the old U. S. RIFLE CAL .30 M1903/1903A3/A4 Forum and a few posts on the old 1917 ENFIELD Forum, and I was extremely impressed with the friendliness, the knowledge, and the helpfulness of the people who posted there.
This is my very first post on the new CSP Forums and my very first post on the M1 GARAND & M14/M1A Forum. I have a few questions for the “experts” about five (5) M1 RIFLE items and two (2) M14 RIFLE items, all of which I purchased/collected more than twenty-five (25) years ago. I also have a general question about my one (1) RIFLE U. S. C/30 M1 NM SER. NO. 5796843 which I purchased in September of 1971 through the Director Of Civilian Marksmanship.
ITEM #1 = TWO (2) M1 RIFLE BUTTPLATES
I purchased both of these black Parkerized stamped steel buttplates back in 1981, and because neither of them has any visible marking(s) at all anywhere on it, I believe that both of them were manufactured by an unknown United States Government Subcontractor sometime after World War II.
QUESTION #: What, if anything, can anyone tell me about these two (2) M1 RIFLE buttplates?
ITEM #2A = ONE (1) M1 RIFLE COMBINATION TOOL (WRAPPED)
I purchased this combination tool back in 1974, and because it is still in its original “kraft” paper package, all I know about it is that it has the “slotted” type chamber cleaning attachment. The printing on the package reads:
1 TOOL COMBINATION EA.
5120-731-0061
430-ORD-STG/575-56
P & P/B (IC-I) 6/57
ITEM #2B = ONE (1) M1 RIFLE COMBINATION TOOL (UNWRAPPED)
I believe this combination tool, which is still covered with some of its original preservative grease, was once wrapped in a “kraft” paper package identical to the one of ITEM #2A (above), and it appears to be marked with a forged “118” near the tail of its rivet.
QUESTION #2 : What, if anything, can anyone tell me about these two (2) M1 RIFLE combination tools?
ITEM #3 = ONE (1) M1 RIFLE COMBINATION TOOL
I purchased this combination tool sometime back in the mid 1970’s, and it was wrapped in heavy green waxed paper. This combination tool is still covered with all of its original preservative grease, it has the “brush” type chamber cleaning attachment, and because it does not have any visible marking(s) at all anywhere on it, I believe that it was manufactured by an unknown United States Government Subcontractor sometime after World War II.
QUESTION #3 : What, if anything, can anyone tell me about this one (1) M1 RIFLE combination tool?
ITEM #4 = TWO (2) M14 RIFLE COMBINATION TOOLS
I collected these two (2) combination tools back in 1972, and I originally sold one hundred fifty (150) of them in their original packaging for $300.00 (three hundred dollars) back in 1973. One (1) of these combination tools is still wrapped in its “VCI” paper inside of its cardboard box, and its cardboard box is still sealed inside of its polyethylene plastic package. The printing on the box reads:
4933-768-0211
TOOL 1 EACH
DA-30-069-AMC-01903 (W)
3/68
The other of these combination tools has been removed from its packaging, and because it does not have any visible marking(s) at all anywhere on it, I believe that both of these combination tools were manufactured by an unknown United States Government Subcontractor in March of 1968.
QUESTION #4 : What, if anything, can anyone tell me about these two (2) M14 RIFLE combination tools?
ITEM #5 = ONE (1) RIFLE U. S. C/30 M1 NM SER. NO. 5796843
I am the original – and the only – non-government owner of this rifle. I have opened, closed, and “dry” fired this rifle’s action less than ten (10) times, but I have never chambered any ammunition of any kind in this rifle, I have never inserted a clip in this rifle, and I have never fired this rifle. I have opened the cover of the buttplate of this rifle less than five (5) times, but I have never moved the rear sight of this rifle, I have never “field stripped” nor disassembled this rifle, I have never cleaned this rifle, and I have never altered this rifle in any way at all. I purchased this Springfield Armory National Match M1 Rifle in September of 1971 through the Director Of Civilian Marksmanship while I was serving in the United States Army as an active duty Military Policeman – M. O. S. 95B40. I served for thirty (30) months in the Federal Republic Of Germany (then known as West Germany) with the 100th Military Police Detachment.
QUESTION #5 : Would it be of any value to anyone here for me to post a link to one hundred (100) high quality digital photographs of this M1 RIFLE along with its original accessories, its original packaging, and its original paperwork on this M1 GARAND & M14/M1A Forum?
THANKS!!!!!
RALPH VAN BUREN
(45B40-95B40)
Photographs Of My NM M1 RIFLE
To see one hundred (100) very large photographs of my NM M1 RIFLE, its box, its packaging, its sling, its combination tool, its provenance, etc., do the following:
[1] Go to "http://www.webshots.com/" (which is the “webshots” home page), left click on “log in” (which is in the upper right hand corner), and log in as:
Member Name = SANMM1RIFLE
Password = SANMM1RIFLE
(all UPPERCASE LETTERS except for the number 1)
[2] Go to the drop down menu “my shots” (which is in the upper left hand corner below “webshots”) and left click on “people” (which is the 4th item on that drop down menu).
[3] Left click on the red “45B40_95B40” link (which is to the right of the photograph of the Military Policeman [me] who’s standing on top of the M151A1 “Jeep”); then left click on the red “SA NM M1 RIFLE S . N . 5796843” link (which is above the photograph of the Military Policeman [me] who’s standing on top of the M151A1 “Jeep”) to go to the album with the one hundred (100) photographs.
[4] Left click on any thumbnail photograph to see a larger photograph, left click on the larger photograph to see the “full screen” photograph, and left click on the full screen photograph to see the full size photograph (the full size photographs range in size from 99KB to more than 1,350KB).
Ralph Van Buren
45B40-95B40
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I’ve Sold The SA NM M1 RIFLE SN 5796843
I advertised the SA NM M1 RIFLE SN 5796843 “FOR SALE” in the “GARAND MARKETPLACE” section of the Summer 2009 edition of the GCA JOURNAL, and I sold it to a collector who has several 100% original and 100% correct M1 rifles but who didn’t already have a(any) NM M1 rifle(s). That collector is about my age [I’m sixty-one (61)], he has two (2) sons who are currently serving in the United States Military [I served in the United States Army], he is a career law enforcement officer [I was a Military Policeman in the United States Army], and his father carried an M1 rifle in World War II [my father also carried an M1 rifle in World War II]. Additionally, that collector has proven to me that he will keep the rifle along with all of its related paperwork and accessories 100% original and 100% correct, he will not fire the rifle, he will not field strip the rifle, he will not disassemble the rifle, he will properly store the rifle along with all of its related paperwork and accessories, and he will eventually pass on the rifle along with all of its related paperwork and accessories to his heirs. Even though I was offered considerably more money for that rifle by several other collectors, I sold it to that particular “right” collector for $4,500.00 (a substantial profit, considering that I purchased that rifle through the Director Of Civilian Marksmanship for “only” $155.70 back in September of 1971), and I was able to personally meet him as well as personally deliver that rifle to him. In addition to that rifle and all of its related paperwork and accessories, I also gave him a CD of all of the original large size digital photographs I’d taken of that rifle, a few M1 rifle military publications, a copy of The M1 Garand: Post World War II by Scott Duff, the original 1958 nearly new “CASE, INDIVIDUAL WEAPONS, PARACHUTISTS” that I’d always stored the preserved and protected rifle in for more than thirty-seven (37) years, and a late 1950’s nearly new “CASE, WEAPON, UNIVERSAL” which was designed to carry an M1 rifle in a military vehicle. That collector presented me with a genuine nickel plated brass UNITED STATES ARMY whistle, the exact type of whistle that was used by MILITARY POLICEMEN.
I could have easily sold five (5) identical SA NM M1 RIFLES for at least $4,000.00 each. I corresponded via telephone and/or via email with people from all over the continental United States, and one thousand seven hundred thirty-two (1,732) people viewed my WebShots “SA NM M1 RIFLE S. N. 5796843” photograph album from June 1st of 2009 up through June 30th of 2009. [I uploaded that photograph album to WebShots on February 24th of 2008, and from that day up through May 31st of 2009, only one thousand five hundred ten (1,510) people viewed that album.]
Over the past more than forty (40) years, I have sold a variety of firearms (but never any M1 rifles) by renting a table and selling them at the Empire State Arms Collectors Association gun shows at Rochester, New York; by carrying them around and selling them at various New York State gun shows, by selling them through “word of mouth” throughout New York State, by selling them through Gunboards.com, by selling them through AuctionArms.com, and by using them as partial payment when I purchased other firearms from New York State FFL dealers. However, if I had to sell the SA NM M1 RIFLE S. N. 5796843 all over again, I would once again only sell it by advertising it “FOR SALE” in the “GARAND MARKETPLACE” section of the GCA JOURNAL.
Take care,
Ralph Van Buren
136 Durland Place
Watkins Glen, New York 14891
(607) 535-4042
