March 2014 Purchases

[RangeRover]

Well, bringing the size, and quality, of March purchases down a bunch o' notches, here's my milsurp accessory purchase for the month. I got this as well as an original clearing rod for my Snider. It's a wee bit fragile, but worthy of purchase in my view as I haven't come across many in any condition recently.




13 2 96 the original production date. Recapped D^C 1901.

 

[addiboi]

I love the smell of cordite in the morning.

Well, bringing the size, and quality, of March purchases down a bunch o' notches, here's my milsurp accessory purchase for the month. I got this as well as an original clearing rod for my Snider. It's a wee bit fragile, but worthy of purchase in my view as I haven't come across many in any condition recently.




13 2 96 the original production date. Recapped D^C 1901.

 

[Riflechair]

1940 J.P. Sauer und Sohn Gewehrfabrik Suhl
Suhl is a city in Thuringia, Germany. (Central Germany)
Post war Norwegian conversion to 30-06

 

[Nyles]

Finally had the import completed on the latest addition to my collection, a WW1 French "Revolver Mle 1892 Espagnol", or Spanish 92. This was one of the myriad of Eibar-made Colt, Smith & Wesson and Peiper copies purchased by the French in WW1 at the same time as the better known Ruby autos. Based on the sheer variety of these they seem to have purchased anything with a 5" barrel that would shoot the 8mm M1892 cartridge. The most common of these seem to be the Orbea made S&W M&P clones, but I purchased this one off of Gunbroker as I figured the caliber marking on the barrel would make it easier to import.

It's a pretty decent copy of a Colt Police Positive Special, with an added lanyard ring, marked "Cordero" (Spanish for lamb) and with a pretty generic trademark. Some sources say these were made by Garate, but there are much uglier Colt copies definitely known to be made by Garate for the French, and the trademark, while showing similar elements, doesn't match my Garate .455 S&W top break clone. Every known Garate firearm I've ever seen also had the adress on the barrel. So I personally doubt it. Either way, it's a very rare (espescially in Canada) example of a WW1 French contract revolver, and looks pretty neat next to my actual Police Positive Special!