Pictures of my 1893 Chiliean Mauser?

[fishn861]

There might be a way to tell by serial numbers what year a DWM rifle was manufactred. Even some of the Model 1891s manufactred by DWM fall into that grey catagory. I think that they we made untill around 1908. Ive been wrong before though.

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[stan61]

This thread got me to recall an article I read in the past half year or so about the Boer connection with some Chilean Mausers. I'm thinking it was a Guns & Ammo review of the M-95,but not sure which months issue.
Anyway, the thread Mr. Chadwick added above had most of what I recalled from that article. It sounds like a good possibility that your rifle could have been destined for South Africa,but was intercepted and returned to Germany and used for the Chilean order. That could explain the M-93 curved bolt as I beleive the mounted troops prefered that style over a straight bolt.
This is much of the fun in collecting milsurps to me. Trying to get the history from any particular rifle can be quite interesting!