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Quote: I take the „10“ as an assembly number by the shop that put the rifle together. Such assembly numbers served the purpose of keeping the fitted parts sorted during futher steps of hardening, polishing, bluing and so on. Apparently the gunsmithes did not care much about keeping bought in Mauser parts sorted by Mauser serial numbers. It’s not unusual to find parts of several Mauser actions combined in one pre-WW1 rifle. Here the bolt from action number 26328 was used to complete action number 26311. Another such mixup may be seen in an old thread about a 9.3x62 rifle by Foerster, Berlin. On that rifle receiver and bottom metal of two 1908 commercial Mauser actions were combined with an even older Mauser bolt, see: http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat....true#Post231353 |