Yugo K98k original manufacturer?

It is probably a German 98, but it appears that it doesn't necessarily need to have started life as a German 98k for the Yugo's to have rebuilt it postwar. I think if it was a captured '98 style mauser that ended up in the big heap of old guns, it would have been stripped down and any useable parts used to build up a Yugo 98k. I have a Yugo capture 98k that is a rebuilt from a Czech 24 (gew24t).

I've also seen pictures posted of Russian capture 98K's (with the bent-bolt stock cut-out) matched with model 24 style straight bolts
 
I don't think that was the case with this one, since the rifle, bolt, stock, barrel are matching serial numbers. This does not support a pieced-together rifle.
 
Post some pics of the serial numbers and the letter fonts. The Yugo's forced matched the numbers on their rifles.

Sometimes matching numbers aren't really matching numbers especially when they are force matched postwar. IE: original numbers sanded and filed off (scrubbed), new numbers restamped on all the parts including the receiver.
 
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Yes. Force-matched. I have a German K98 with the original factory code that has been rebuilt in Yugoslavia, and it has all matching numbers, but it is clearly re-numbered because the style of some of the numbered parts are late war and not appropriate to pre-war reciever.

Like the rifle you pictured on the first page of this post, both of my Yugo rifles are numbered on the right side of the reciever and on the top of the bolt handle, floorplate and left hand side of the stock.

Unless I am mistaken, the original German serial number would have been on the lefthand side of the reciever ring on a 98k, along with a national eagle, but these would have been removed during the refurb. when the new numbers and your Yugo crest were stamped in.

Can anyone verify this?
 
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