National Postal Meter 30 carbine WIW

[Hammer500]

Hi folks. My grandfather on my mother's side left my cousin (because his last name was the same) his 30 carbine. I have been holding on to it for over 15 years because my cousin wasn't old enough to possess it at the time of my grandfather's passing. My cousin is now old enough and shows no interest in getting is Rpal so I thought I would try and sell it while I still can and at least get some money for him. My grandfather has an 1.25" of pipe soldered to the barrel to make it legal length, back when that was acceptable and carried this gun trapping. He told me lots of stories of shooting everything from fox to moose with the gun. It is a National Postal Meter and appears to be number matching. I am not sure if the rear sight is original or not. The stock has a piece missing at the rear of the receiver and there appears to be a crack there as well. There is no sling with the rifle either. The gun cycles well and the action seems to be tight compared to others I have handled. What would this rifle be worth?

 

[ArtyMan]

The rear sight suggests post-war Bavarian police issue. The "crack" at the rear of the receiver isn't a crack - just where the receiver sits into the recoil place. Overall value with that extra part bubbad on likely in the 500-600 range but I could be off

 

[Dyspnea]

It’s German police carbine post ww2, the rear sight was removed and filled then a new one soldered to the front receiver. The matching numbers was done by the Germans. On the left side of the receiver may be a stamping of which german police force was issued the rifle.

Even though it has a barrel extension it would still make it restricted. $7-800

 

[Hammer500]

Ok. Thank you very much for the information. I had no idea German police rifle but after looking it up that sites to be exactly the rear sight.

 

[contact148]

looks like a mix master Saginaw gear recoil plate and an underwood barrel band. I can see in the pics also has early push safety

German police post war use with the german rear sight

extension welded on would lower value to me

 

[Hammer500]

Could very well be. I just noticed that everything that had a serial number matched. However as you point out those things could be mismatched.

 

[contact148]

Could very well be. I just noticed that everything that had a serial number matched. However as you point out those things could be mismatched.

The Germans were the ones who numbered every single part to match the last four or five digits of the serial number. by mixmaster I mean there’s various makes of USGI parts on that rifle when they left the factory, they were usually all the same manufacture parts, but not always.