In 1941, the Mauser company of Germany produced on request and delivered a sporting rifle to Tisdall, a New Zealand firearm distributor, two years after New Zealand had declared war on Germany along with Great Britain in Sept. 1939. I do not know how they actually got the rifle there, perhaps through third party neutral shipping (e.g. Sweden) or, as was apparently done with some German products later in the war, via U-boat. (Documented in The Mauser Archive by Jon Speed, Collector Grade Publications, 2007. pp. 316, 541.)
A lesson for Canada Post.
(The enterprising Tisdall is still in business in NZ. Originally gunsmiths from Birmingham, England, other Tisdall brothers went to Canada, where one Tisdall built guns in Fredericton, N.B. Another Tisdall brother was a gunsmith in B.C. and later became mayor of Vancouver.)
A lesson for Canada Post.
(The enterprising Tisdall is still in business in NZ. Originally gunsmiths from Birmingham, England, other Tisdall brothers went to Canada, where one Tisdall built guns in Fredericton, N.B. Another Tisdall brother was a gunsmith in B.C. and later became mayor of Vancouver.)
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