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On page 96 of Speed's Archive book (plate 170) there is an illustration of a factory installed scope mount on a round top action. On page 96 (plate 177) there is an illustration of a double square bridge rifle whose rear bridge was "milled down and fitted with a screw-on double-claw base." Plate 178 (page 97) illustrates another non-standard scope mount installed on a round top action.
I was left with the impression that the factory would install whatever mount the customer wanted.

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Plate 170 Shows merely a drawing of a mount project for a Zeiss Zielklein scope. Noone has yet seen such a mount by the Mauser factory.
All the other plates Show contemporary "aftermarket" mounts:
Plate 177 is an aftermarket claw mount , standard Suhl type, mounted by an individual gunsmith, with the soldered on half-rings.
Plate 178 shows a variant of the claw mount made by A. Schüler, Suhl.
Plate 180 is a mount by Albert Wilhelm Triebel, Suhl, as are the mounts shown in plates 190,191,205.
Plate 192 shows a Wiener Schnäppermontage.
Obviously Mauser kept photos of these non-Mauser, aftermarket mount systems as examples only in their archive. More non-factory scope mounts are shown in Jon Speed’s first book “Mauser – Original Oberndorf Sporting Rifles”:
Plate 333 Vienna snap-on mount again
335 Greifelt, Suhl side mount
349, 603, 605, 972, 973, 974, “standard” Suhl claw mounts like on your rifle.

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