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FINE CONDITION SIAMESE MAUSER BOLT ACTION RIFLE

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
FINE CONDITION SIAMESE MAUSER BOLT ACTION RIFLE

WITH DUST COVER. Cal. 8mm. S# 268193. Made by Tokyo Arsenal. Standard configuration with 29" barrel holding long tangent curve sight. Action has Siamese circular crest on receiver ring and retains its original sliding dust cover. Importer's serial number is in electric pencil on side wall. Unnumbered bolt appears to have been with this rifle from the beginning. Magazine has slant box to feed rimmed cartridges. Pistol grip stock with finger grooves is unmarked but appears original. CONDITION: very good to fine. Metal parts retaining most of their original blue. Stock also has most of its original oil type finish with a large number of minor marks, scratches and dings. Bore is fair to good, dark in grooves. Mechanically good. PROVENANCE: Estate Collection of Jack Verret Sr. (22-791/MGM). CURIO. $300-400.