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12-23-2011 05:30 PM
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Great find! Is it one from the 1917 made rifles? Can´t decipher the numbers!
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Originally Posted by
Calfed
"garden variety",
Of course, you're talking about a high-quality garden here!
Ulrich, I read the number as 41?204, maybe 419204 which would put the manufacturing date around mid-1916 according to Poyer.
Patrick
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Originally Posted by
Patrick Chadwick
Of course, you're talking about a high-quality garden here!
Ulrich, I read the number as 41?204, maybe 419204 which would put the manufacturing date around mid-1916 according to Poyer.
Patrick
It is a fine garden indeed.
Ulrich, Patrick is right on the money.."419204".
Here is the auction description:
Schmidt-Rubin Model 1896/11 (WRONG!) Straight-Pull Rifle, #419204, 7.5x55mm Swiss, 30.7'' barrel, tangent leaf sight graduated to 2000 meters, blue finish, European walnut stocks, with sling. Import marked. Condition is very good retaining approx. 92% original factory blue. Stock with thinning to finish and light to just moderate dings, scuffs and scratches. Action is crisp, bore is fine.
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Originally Posted by
Calfed
I believe that this means that the rifle was turned over to the individual by the
Swiss government in 1959.
Correct.
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