'98 rifle with some scarce parts.

[browningautorifle]

Here's an ad seen in passing with some parts, that if correct would be a bargain. The mag alone seems to me should be about the price of the whole thing if real. The action shield is something I've never seen and once again would be expensive. I can see why they'd be discarded.
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[Surpmil]

Overall it looks quite authentic except that the edge of the sheet metal attachment for the action cover would quickly scratch and gouge the stock and this one looks like it was put on yesterday, not a century ago. Some _____ has carefully steel wooled the stock to make it more purty for the educated buyers, so maybe he carefully sanded all that out?

Strange stain that goes around the stock just ahead of that piece of sheet metal too; was there another piece there that the "restorer" removed? Perhaps a piece of metal added by a soldier to try and make the sheet metal attachment more stable, which our "restorer" felt had to go?

You'd want to see it with the bolt open because the action cover would probably leave marks on the receiver ring as the bolt opened and closed. Maybe they just forgot to take those photos.

Did the "restorer" forget to put the cross-pin back in the nosecap?

Has the look of a former museum piece that was "massaged" before being sent to auction.

Another example of leave well enough alone that wasn't.