Boer Mauser numbers

I always heard it the other way around: an order of already-manufactured, already-marked Chileno Modelo 1895 7x57 rifles made by Loewe/Berlin, receiving additional markings and being delivered to the Boer purchasing agency. DWM (of which Loewe was a part) then made additional Model 95 Mausers for Chile to make up for the redirected rifles. Last manufacture on these would appear to have been about 1902: butt date on my Chilean 95.

The Boer Pom-pom guns were purchased for the French Navy for torpedo-boat use, then rerouted to the Boer republics for use against British and Canadian troops. There are TWO captured Pom-poms at CFB Shilo........ and I REALLY WANT ONE!

Am I missing something?
 
From "Small Arms of the Anglo Boer War" Bester
Rifles diverted to Chile from:

Transvaal
C1-C4000 a 1899 follow up order to the A and B prefix rifles that were delivered to the Transvaal

OVS

OVS
7500 plus mixed with some that were delivered to OVS
 
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what i heard was that one of the orders to the boers was blockaded and couldent get past so it went back to germany and then they sold them to chile. but i dont really know. just what i thought.

smellie said:
I always heard it the other way around: an order of already-manufactured, already-marked Chileno Modelo 1895 7x57 rifles made by Loewe/Berlin, receiving additional markings and being delivered to the Boer purchasing agency. DWM (of which Loewe was a part) then made additional Model 95 Mausers for Chile to make up for the redirected rifles. Last manufacture on these would appear to have been about 1902: butt date on my Chilean 95.

The Boer Pom-pom guns were purchased for the French Navy for torpedo-boat use, then rerouted to the Boer republics for use against British and Canadian troops. There are TWO captured Pom-poms at CFB Shilo........ and I REALLY WANT ONE!

Am I missing something?
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If memory serves, the serial numbers for the Boer Mausers turned back began with a "C" prefix, and many (all?) would also have been stamped "OVS" on the side rail in addition to having the Chilean crest on the top of the receiver. Exact number of rifles in that group I can't recall.
 
I have DWM carbine serial #6691 - one of 2000 made in 1897 for the ZAR, and shipped out there in August of that year. It was captured at the Battle of Korannafontein in May of 1901, and removed from the care of one Piet Huijsen, whose name is on the stock. The 'battle' - more of a skirmish - took place over two days and involved a troop of Australian New South Wales Mounted Infantry, learning the hard way that a couple of Boers on a ridgeline usually menas a couple of hundred on the other side...

Apologies for drift....

tac
 
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