Like Lugers, k98k's are valued based on matching #, condition, rarity and originality. A pile of these rifles were imported in the 1950's and 60's (and now thousands of russian captures are coming in with many rare variations amoung these), and without documentation like capture papers, it should be treated as a mismatch. Even if you are able to find a nice s/42 stock of the appropriate vintage, it will probably cost you about what the k date stock would sell for in the same condition. The mismatch could have happened as a result of field repair, armorer repair, arsenal repair in the final year of the war, or it could have been assembled from parts for export. What ever led to it's present condition is irrepairable from a collector's standpoint. Condition will be everything at this point and the price should not exceed $400.00. Double that with capture papers.
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