Type 35 with matching numbers and a mum?

[bingeebob]

Guy on a forum posted pictures of a Type 35 with all matching numbers, a perfect untouched mum, un-messed with screws, and an original leather lace-up buttpad.

Somebody left in hanging in a barn for 50 years, but thankfully it was a dry climate and it didn't rust hardly at all.

Not my gun, and I don't have detailed pics, but what would a general ballpark be for value?

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[Patrick Chadwick]

Impossible to say without pics. It might be an original Type 35 (rare, good) or a type 35 action re-used in a last-ditch rifle (category: esoteric scrap). If you are thinking of purchasing it, you must anticipate that, especially if left hanging up in a barn for decades, the leather will be extremely brittle and the wood may have also have dried out so thoroughly that is it also brittle and may have warped. For say $100, grab it and run.


Patrick

[bingeebob]

Here are some photos of the Type 35.

It isn't my rifle, it was posted on another forum by somebody I don't know and who isn't trying to sell it.

I am just curious about it's value and about this model in general, as I don't think I've ever seen one before.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Sorry, but that is not an original Type 35. It is indeed a last-ditch "recycling" of a Type 35 barrelled action, known to collectors as an 02/45. The most obvious clue (apart from the generally scruffy look) is the front barrel band which is a late version of the Type 99 band, and not the slimmer and more elegantly shaped original band, which looked like that used for the Type 38.

And the "original leather lace-up buttpad" may be original US, but is hardly of Japanese origin.

And the backsight is wrecked - the leaf has been torn away - you can see that the lugs for the axis pin have been snapped off.

I guess that the 35 in green painted onto the front end of the stock was so that whoever assembled the rifles would know that it was supposed to be fitted with a Type 35 action and not some other type.


Patrick

[bingeebob]

Thanks Patrick,

I didn't get the pictures until after I had posted first. The guy initially seemed to think it was a Czech made rifle, and some sort of sniper's special model... Then he thought it was an original Type 35... now we see that it is actually a 02/45.. I'll let him know

Bert