CanadaCollector
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- Grafton, Ontario
Here's my Springfield M1 Garand that came in the mail today! She's an all matching gorgeous rifle made in November of 1941 so shes pre-WW2...barely. If only this rifle could talk.
June 2013 Purchases
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Nice M1, but I'm a bit leery of those stock stamps. They are too crisp for the rest of the rifle and you should not see a flat outline around the crossed canon cartouche. Hate to cast doubt on your otherwise very fine rifle, but I think they are faked.
CanadaCollector
CGN Regular
- Location
- Grafton, Ontario
Really eh? I compared them to other stocks from the same batch and didn't notice anything unusually, although I am not a garand expert. The stamps are all correct for the year/serial of the rifle...unless someone did their homework before they faked them. Either that or someone referb'd a stock and wanted it to look correct. Oh well
Just picked this up last night, a local collector picked this up at a gunshow earlier this year (was at the show) i was quite jealous of this one as all matching Longlees in NZ seem to be very rare (this being the only one i've seen here) anyway, got a call yesterday arvo that he was interested in moving it on, so i swooped 
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CanadaCollector
CGN Regular
- Location
- Grafton, Ontario
Just had it checked out by the expert on Garand cartouches, Rick B, on milsurps.com. He confirms it is 100% original and just a nice deep stamp. Even compared it in a photo against another original stamp from the same batch and it looks good.
first is a Hungarian 1953 m-44 in excellent condition
The other is a SVT-40 IZZY 1940 sniper in v-good condition and the bore is like new
It's my second svt-40 sniper, I bought both in cosmoline and they don't have the same notch?
The other is a SVT-40 IZZY 1940 sniper in v-good condition and the bore is like new
It's my second svt-40 sniper, I bought both in cosmoline and they don't have the same notch?
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Picked up a nice 1925 Oviedo Spanish Mauser 1893 from a board member. Decent shape with a good bore, matching except for the bolt. However, it's well recorded that at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government openned up the armories and armed the left-wing militias, rifles and bolts were stored separately and no effort was made to match them up. This probably lead to alot of the problems with rifles recorded in accounts of the militias - I'm currently reading Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and he mentions this frequently! So I'm actually quite ok with the mismatched bolt, even if I'm going to have to check the headspace before I shoot it.
Just picked this up last night, a local collector picked this up at a gunshow earlier this year (was at the show) i was quite jealous of this one as all matching Longlees in NZ seem to be very rare (this being the only one i've seen here) anyway, got a call yesterday arvo that he was interested in moving it on, so i swooped
Now thats something we don't see every day here....very nice. New Plymouth Home Guard marked too....
First, let be perfectly clear!!!! I DO NOT COLLECT NAVY STUFF!!! This is my only piece relating directly to the US Navy. This will soon be set-up in my Mini Museum on a mannequin. Till such time it has found a spot in my living room.
Second, this technically was a June Purchase, though did not decide to post it till now
What we have here is a Desco B-Lung Re-Breather, also known as the Buccaneer Lung. This piece was made during World War Two and was used by the U.S. Navy and the OSS for Underwater Demolition. The raised "bump" on the face-piece is an indication of he first model, later post war variants used a flat large triangular face piece. Additionally the air tank valves are smaller then the later pattern and some of the first pattern used the larger vales as well.
The early UDT (Underwater Demolition Teams) woudl have used this to place mines in strategic locations to destroy enemy installations and hazards. May have been used for covert operations as well. Apparently these are very rare and incredibly difficult to find. I have never seen one of these before and decided this was the ultimate US Navy piece to have. This is one of the rarest of all World War Two U.S. Navy artifacts. NO, I DO NOT COLLECT NAVY STUFF!!!!
Front view
Back View
Maker mark
Side View
Valve details
Mask Valve
Second, this technically was a June Purchase, though did not decide to post it till now
What we have here is a Desco B-Lung Re-Breather, also known as the Buccaneer Lung. This piece was made during World War Two and was used by the U.S. Navy and the OSS for Underwater Demolition. The raised "bump" on the face-piece is an indication of he first model, later post war variants used a flat large triangular face piece. Additionally the air tank valves are smaller then the later pattern and some of the first pattern used the larger vales as well.
The early UDT (Underwater Demolition Teams) woudl have used this to place mines in strategic locations to destroy enemy installations and hazards. May have been used for covert operations as well. Apparently these are very rare and incredibly difficult to find. I have never seen one of these before and decided this was the ultimate US Navy piece to have. This is one of the rarest of all World War Two U.S. Navy artifacts. NO, I DO NOT COLLECT NAVY STUFF!!!!
Front view
Back View
Maker mark
Side View
Valve details
Mask Valve
Actually you can remove the rear sight (silver soldered on) and drift out the blanking plate to add the proper GI type sight. I recently did a 1943 IBM carbine, restoring it to its native WW2 design and it came out perfect.
