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Unread 11-08-2011, 02:01 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by mecano44 View Post
Hello Mike

I think that the magazines bottoms have been exchanged, just to get a nicer look... silver with silver ( your Dad should have done it ..)

The aluminium bottom was only issued with black magazines...

wood bottoms belong to the WWI period
Wood bottom mags were also used during the Weimar era until 1929 by DWM.
Tin plated, silver colored tubes with aluminum bottoms "silver with silver" were used from 1930 to mid 1936 by Mauser.
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