*** January 2008 Purchases ***

[Badger]

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Show us all what great deals you made this month !!!

Regards,
Badger

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[Sigismund]

is that rifle above yours Doug?

If so, bravo!

[Badger]

is that rifle above yours Doug?

If so, bravo!

Well, it was an almost purchase....

I missed buying it by one day.

Someone else had already put a deposit on it in the U.K., less than 24 hours before I was directed to the ad. It had been in a museum for 40 years, which was closing down and their collection was being sold off by a dealer.

Beautiful piece....

I thought it was time to replace the standard PU sniper pics I've been using for over a year in our thread introductory monthly purchases post, so that's why you'll see it up there for a while. It will be a constant reminder to me that you have to be quick to get the good stuff.

Here's the "comments" I received from the dealer, as well as all of the pics that he sent me on it.

Regards,
Badger

This rifle is a J.P. Sauer und Sohn Gewehrfabrik, SUHL

This is the 2nd variation of rifles produced by JPS&S in 1943 showing the WaA 280 which tells us the date of the rifle as most receiver rings were scrubbed when mounting the High Turrets for the scope.

This rifle is coded 'ce' JPS&S

The 1st variation 'ce' can be identified by the Gothic Script at commencement of series and the WaA359.

Scope - Scope is a Carl Zeiss Zeilvier model produced from circa 1934 to 1942. As the Zeilvier has not been coded with Zeiss -Jena (eg - 'blc' ) I strongly suspect this rifle was originally procured for SS or Police use - (the SS were particularly fond of Zeiss scopes and mounted them either on the High Turret mount or the Short side rail mount) Their love affair with Zeiss scopes started as far back as circa 1934 when the Chef des Ausbildungswesens was created - SS used a private purchase system from the 7 main K98k manufacturers till early '44 when the OKW were able to control Himmler's thirst for autonomy! I believe however, this rifle ended up in the Wehrmacht.

Obviously I have examined the High Turret scope mounts - the numbering style and stamping is consistent - I have looked at many sniper rifles over the course of the last 30 years 'hands on' in National and Army Museums and private collections - from the USA to Germany - without question this rifle is correct.

In UK today there is a well know southern gunsmith building " copy" K98k sniper rifles - it is tragic that in a few years these will have gained a provenance and be sold and vanish into a collection for another 20 years through a lack of knowledge".

[Sigismund]

Oddly enough, the scope on that rifle goes to 1000, I thought the scopes were only supposed to go to 800?

[Greg]

Well, it was an almost purchase....

I missed buying it by one day.

Someone else had already put a deposit on it in the U.K., less than 24 hours before I was directed to the ad. It had been in a museum for 40 years, which was closing down and their collection was being sold off by a dealer.

Beautiful piece....

I thought it was time to replace the standard PU sniper pics I've been using for over a year in our thread introductory monthly purchases post, so that's why you'll see it up there for a while. It will be a constant reminder to me that you have to be quick to get the good stuff.

Here's the "comments" I received from the dealer, as well as all of the pics that he sent me on it.

Regards,
Badger

What was the Price on the K98 Sniper?

[Riflechair]

I figure someone should put a pic up eventually
So here it is...

[Badger]

What was the Price on the K98 Sniper?

Sorry Greg....

I missed you question....

I think it was about 4,200 English pounds (or $8,200 Cdn approx).....

Regards,
Badger

[Lance]

New toy arrived yesterday thanks to a good guy out west who thought I should have it. Personally I like it a whole bunch better than the standard 4 draw spotting scope. Per the published numbers 500 were produced, this one is 534-C, anyone have one higher??

[Badger]

New toy arrived yesterday thanks to a good guy out west who thought I should have it. Personally I like it a whole bunch better than the standard 4 draw spotting scope. Per the published numbers 500 were produced, this one is 534-C, anyone have one higher??

Nice find ...

... and rare ....

Last year, stencollector preapared a nice article in the MKL with pics on his Canadian Telescope, Observing, Sniper's Cmk1 (click here)

~Angel~ added a photo montage of hers. If you'd like to take a bunch of pics, we could add yours under the same Collectors Comments and Feedback section, so we could start building a broader research base around them.

Interesting serial number. .......... I think both scopes, their tripods and cases in the MKL are under #500.

Regards,
Badger

[thunderflash]

This was actually purchased in December, so if it's O.K. I'd like to start my New Years post.
Searched for this baby for a while ( had a chance twelve years ago, & passed on it cause I thought it was too expensive, $1,100 --- Paid a LOT more this time though!
But NOT THE LEAST BIT SORRY !!!
It's a" CA" ,All matching #'s ,with the cleanest conversion I have ever seen ,or owned. Welcome Home ! Thanks !

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