Dutch Geweer 95 rifle

[Anzac15]

Found this old gal in a pawn shop today. It is a Steyr manufactured Geweer 95 rifle made in 1896 for the Dutch.
Around here, you will see a few Dutch Mannlicher carbines, but rifles are few and far between. So you have to grab these when they pop up.
I'm guessing it is missing the top handguard..however I have seen pics of two other G95 rifles without them. The Dutch had so many variants of rifles and carbines, so maybe this one wasn't meant to have one. Apparently there were different configurations for the Army, Marine (Navy) and the KNIL.
There is a unit mark, 'KK 96', on the buttplate. 'KK' seems familiar, but can't offhand remember what the designation is.
Glad to find this one..they don't pop up often.

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