A Pair of WWI 1917 k-block Erfurts

[majspud]

Filled a big gap in my Mauser collection with an all matching 1917 Erfurt Kar98a today. Pounding on the door early this AM of the UPS center in Sagamore, I was not to be denied.

Other than some goober putting the stock in a vice and shaving the bolt stop on the follower, all parts match including the bolt internals. The rifle has a great bore, stock has crisp cartouches, and the only blue loss is on the front band and floor plate from carrying. Sling is a repro, but of vintage leather.

My k-block Erfurt Luger picked up a k-block big brother.

Thanks for the look.

T

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[browningautorifle]

Maybe steam would lift those vise marks? Nice pair though...

[majspud]

I'm going to try a steam iron over a wet cloth and see what happens.

T

[browningautorifle]

I have a small hand held steamer that I use for that sort of thing. Locally available in hardware stores.

[majspud]

A steam iron took out the worst of the vice imprints, especially on the right side. It also remove the glossy finish from the area. Not sure if I want to steam the whole stock or build the gloss back up in the affected areas.

T





Anyone know how to remove the stacking bar to remove the rear band?

T

[majspud]

Figured out the stacking bar, but as I cleaned from the outside in, I found an undisclosed repaired duffel cut. Have an email out to the seller.

I did steam the rest of the stock and added a coat of Howards.

T

[browningautorifle]

Too bad about the duffel cut, the whole looks great though. The steam didn't do harm, see? Those are scarce enough that this one will do nicely...you say it has a great bore? Nice...

[majspud]

Other side:

T

[browningautorifle]

That's just plain nice...the pistol's fine too but this is scarce. Specially with a good bore.

[majspud]

I got what amounts to a 15% consideration for the duffel cut; enough to buy a Gew88 bolt to part out to fix the clipped firing pin and missing bolt head of a WWI unit marked Spandau Gew88/05 on the way.

The P08 is rare in that it is unit marked: M.G. 10.K. L.122. N.4., which translates into machine gun platoon, 10th company, 122nd Landwehr Infantry Regiment, weapon #4. The 122nd was from the Kingdom of Württemberg and ended the war in the Argonne. This pistol probably came home with a Doughboy. All matching with original spare, non-numbered Erfurt magazine and a second non-matching Erfurt Magazine I got for it.

T