new photos of WW1 .30 broomhandle in 9mm s.n. range

Douglas Jr. · 07-07-2019, 02:57 PM

These are Mauser inspectors marks, whose meaning was lost to time.
There is a batch of Wartime Commercial C96s made in around 1917-1918 which seems to have its own serial numer range. I had seen them in past. Some people called them "Nordic Contract" or something like that - maybe an attempt to link them to the Finnish Civil War (1918-1919). But any definitive proof hasn't surfaced yet.

07-07-2019, 02:57 PM	#5
Douglas Jr. User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: South America Posts: 948 Thanks: 598 Thanked 584 Times in 254 Posts	These are Mauser inspectors marks, whose meaning was lost to time. There is a batch of Wartime Commercial C96s made in around 1917-1918 which seems to have its own serial numer range. I had seen them in past. Some people called them "Nordic Contract" or something like that - maybe an attempt to link them to the Finnish Civil War (1918-1919). But any definitive proof hasn't surfaced yet.