Military Mount?

[jerry10]

Quite new to this site and like most shooters have collected a great deal of junk. I have an old, single shot .22 retailed by C. Lancaster dating from about 1880. It was originally in .22 short, but chamber errosion resulted in a small sleave being machined in and the rifle being rechambered for .22LR some 10 years ago. This returned accuracy and it fires close on a thousand rounds a year, with cloverleaf groupings at 30m. My eyesight started to give up at the same time and I mounted a small scope on it I had in the back of a drawer- it is German and probably from the 1920's. What I am interested in is the mount. This is marked Anschutz, is one piece and has windage adjustment in it. It is designed for quick removal. I was informed some time ago that the mount had military origins from about the first world war. I find this hard to believe as it is so pristine, but looking closer does have me wondering. Anyone know which forum it would be best to place this question in?

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[jerry10]

Deleted photos due to security issues - The photos links did lead to porn.

Thanks for the heads up Emri!
~ Harlan

Edit: Fixed bad pics for member and stored them internally on in-house Milsurps servers

[Emri]

DO NOT OPEN the pics to a larger format !!!

You will be re-directed to another website that contains PORN !!!

It happened to me.

FWIW,

Emri

Edit: Fixed bad pics for member and stored them internally on in-house Milsurps servers

[Emri]

Now that I had a chance to view it, I'll say it IS an interesting mount. Definitely old. Unfortunately, I can't offer any information on it.

[jerry10]

Thanks for all efforts by members to remove the link ASAP, it was unintended and a result of using a web site to host the pictures - I will not be using that site again! I do now recall where the mount came from, it was from West Germany sometime in the late seventies. I obtained it from a man who knew less English than I knew German and he sold me three or four mounts and about half a dozen scopes in various states of repair. It worked out at about £50, which was a lot at that time. I seem to remember him saying something about the mouint it coming off an old, obsolete model of Mauser.