Odd cleaning tool.
 

I purchased this cleaning tool at a gun auction last weekend and ask if any one can identify it please. The oil bottle has a screw on cap with a tapered flat spoon fitted inside. on the opposite end of the oil bottle the Mauser banner is clearly stamped.
The shaft is brass and the turned groves on the end of the brass shaft are fine, much like the late model Mauser cleaning rods that do not have an oil bottle attached.

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http://boards.rennlist.com/lfupload/Mauser.JPG

Can anyone help please

Murry, The Mauser marked oiler type rod shown above in your photos was issued with one of the 1970's Mauser commeratives. I've forgotten which one at the moment, but perhaps F. Allen will advise. TH

Murry/Tom

I have a "cased" Mauser 06/73 Cartridge Counter that has the same cleaning rod.

Regards

Ken D

I have one just like this but much older and with tarnish and without the Mauser marking. Mr. Shattuck advised me it was a 1906 cleaning rod. I just used it a few minutes ago to push an olled patch thru my "new" 1920 9mm shooter.

Jerry that is very interesting, so I wonder if the newer Mauser is a copy of the old original one?

Jerry, how sure are you that it is an old one?

I mean, it has the age and patina of an old one?

Ed

I think I fat-fingered my response, so here goes again:

Yes, it has patina. I'm mainly going by Mr. Shattuck's statement which was 1906, worth about $25.

If you have a copy of Gene Bender's book (LUGER HOLSTER'S AND THEIR ACCESSORIES) You will see that it is actually Portugese luger cleaning rod. From the photo it appears to have been remarked for later lugers..Netherland also used the same think

David,
You are correct that both Portugal and the Netherlands used cleaning rods of this type. The one pictured above is as Lugerdoc described, a part of a 1970s Mauser commemorative issue. The earlier cleaning rods have a much smaller cap on the oiler, and the knurling on the cap is the full height of the cap in a diamond pattern, not the square checkered row shown on the Mauser rod.

JerryB,
Unless it is really ratty, your estimate of the value of your 1906 era cleaning rod, if original, is at least $70-$100 short. There are fairly good reproductions being made now, but even those cost more than $25.

This has a sort of simularity to a cleaning rod shown in "Lugers At Random" page 416. There is a picture of a GNR holster rig. Only the spiraled tip on the rod is different. Also see Jan Stills "Third Reich Lugers and Their Accessories" page 200.
Big Norm