12-255 Garand Picture of the Day not so common garands

[Mark in Rochester]

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[Bob Seijas]

I have several of those. The light gray fiberglass stock with dark gray one-piece handguard is one. It takes a modified lower band that I found in a box of parts -- I'll bet I was the only person at the show who knew what it was.
Back in the day, there were at least three types of synthetic stocks floating around, leftovers from experiments to replace walnut -- mine was made by Lunn Laminates on Long Island. The one with the recessed side panels came in green and brown. There was another type that was the conventional shape but was seen with and without panels of checkering molded in. They almost always had $100 price tags on them, pretty stiff at the time.

[Bob Seijas]

The heel with Arabic crests was made for North Yemen by Beretta and used in their civil war in which the Royalists were defeated by the leftist revolutionaries with the aid of Egypt.
Arabic marking on the stock translates to “Property of the Mutwakil kingdom of Yemen. Prince of the believers HR. IMAM AHMED BIN YAHYA HAMID AL DEEN”. A number of these were mixed in with a lot of Hakim rifles imported from Egypt.

[ABPOS]

WOW! Learn something new every day.

[AZPhil]

If you don't mind me asking.
What is the history of the one in the bottom pic with the oriental swastika?

[Mark in Rochester]

If you don't mind me asking.
What is the history of the one in the bottom pic with the oriental swastika?

Phil

that is a Chinese copy of a Garand

the symbol is religious in origin and has nothing to do with. the Nazi's

Photo courtesy of ryociji



note early stock profile and squared receiver slot- early features