What Is This Mark (mauser K98)

[K98ACTION]

ALL, Need a quick answer. What is this mark on the barrel just to the left of the serial number. Is it a Pre-war or Post-war Eagle, or something? Most RC's that still have the waffen ampt intact will have one on the receiver like this one, and one on the barrel. But WHAT THE HECK IS This funny looking eagle thingy....Maybe war time foreign manufacture, Czech....

 

[Winchester-1897]

It may be the transitional eagle or Weimar period eagle National Eagle which was used between 1933 & 1939. It started out in '33 with no legs or tail, only wing feathers from each wing meeting at the bottom.

 

[Sigismund]

That would be a luftamt stamp. Being a contract piece for the luftwaffe in 1941. Rare. But as an RC not necesarrily very valuable. Nice though.

 

[Winchester-1897]

Have a look at this site it may be of help. I think it incorporates some of the things that Sigismund and I both say on the subject.

http://www.ycgg.org/pdfpages/ww2/mauser-borsigwalde.pdf