Old creepy headstamp

[Papa Charlie]

I have a June 1943 Winchester M1 Garand. Been putting accessories together for it for some time. I would love to get an M1C to mate up with it. Of course the holy grail would be to find the Springfield M1 with the same SN as mine. My rifle is one of the 30K that ended up with duplicate SN's with Springfield. A few guys I know of in the M1 Collector's club have sets. One guy as three sets. Pretty cool when you think about the odds of both of them coming together.
For all I know, the one I am looking for may be buried in the mud around a hedge row in Europe or in the sand in the Pacific or at the bottom of the sea, who knows.

My baby sporting a grenade launcher. I have a bayonet that is from the same time frame as well, shown with the belt below.

 

[joshb]

That’s nice! One gun I don’t own but wish I did. I’ve handled a few but I don’t know enough about them to make a qualified purchase.

 

[Depart123]

The one I have appears to have a longer taper to the shoulder than the one pictured above?

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The one in the picture above may have been reloaded. Here is a side pic of original ammo:

 

[D.Stone]

Josh,
Depending on condition, the rifle is worth between $1500 and $2500 with the bayonet. But hard to fix without seeing it.

Or not a whole lot because of the tendency to fake these markings. Slapping Nazi stamps on surplus junk to con rubes has been a thing for basically ever.