SS-marking on luger

ichabod · 12-10-2002, 09:51 PM

Heydrich & all - re: Gew98s in S.S. hands. I remember reading on a Mauser rifle message board an O.S.S. account of S.S. guards in Belgium "armed with obsolete 1888 model rifles" . There was a long thread about whether the O.S.S. agent meant "1898" but the general consensus was that the agent (maybe Col. Rex Applegate ?) was very familiar German small arms and made mention of the year model "1888" precisely to illustrate the hodge-podge of weapons used by the "elite" S.S. Personally, I like the WW1 and older Mausers - there's a lot less fraud in the Imperial stuff. I've never heard of anyone faking a Fraktur proof. Also, my import-marked dou43 98k cost me $120 in 1999 but my 1891 Amberg Gew88/05 was just $50 in '98 and my near mint 1891 Loewe Gew88/05 was just $60 in 2001 ! - $110 for TWO non-import stamped rifles whose lineage can never be questioned - yessir, I like the oldies.

12-10-2002, 09:51 PM	#11
ichabod User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 31 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Heydrich & all - re: Gew98s in S.S. hands. I remember reading on a Mauser rifle message board an O.S.S. account of S.S. guards in Belgium "armed with obsolete 1888 model rifles" . There was a long thread about whether the O.S.S. agent meant "1898" but the general consensus was that the agent (maybe Col. Rex Applegate ?) was very familiar German small arms and made mention of the year model "1888" precisely to illustrate the hodge-podge of weapons used by the "elite" S.S. Personally, I like the WW1 and older Mausers - there's a lot less fraud in the Imperial stuff. I've never heard of anyone faking a Fraktur proof. Also, my import-marked dou43 98k cost me $120 in 1999 but my 1891 Amberg Gew88/05 was just $50 in '98 and my near mint 1891 Loewe Gew88/05 was just $60 in 2001 ! - $110 for TWO non-import stamped rifles whose lineage can never be questioned - yessir, I like the oldies. __________________ "No snowflake ever feels responsible for the avalanche." Haywood Yasumi