Old Mauser serial number ?

[shooter74]

A buddy at work inherited a very nice customized Mauser from his dad. Made by Jordan gun works in 270 Winchester. It has no numbers on it. It is very very clean there is no sign of them being removed. Did they ever make the Swedish Mauser with no sn on the action. I’ve found very contradicting info searching the web. Like I mentioned this rifle is no hack job. Also what would a rifle like this be valued at I’m thinking $500 range

 

[watercam]

My war era Mauser has no numbers on the receiver. There are three on the end of the bolt and when I traveled to New Zealand Customs just used those. You can assign it a serial number just by stamping them on I believe.

 

[shooter74]

My war era Mauser has no numbers on the receiver. There are three on the end of the bolt and when I traveled to New Zealand Customs just used those. You can assign it a serial number just by stamping them on I believe.

Thank you.

 

[Laurie]

Did they ever make the Swedish Mauser with no sn on the action.

I'd be surprised if they did - the Swedes were pretty obsessive about numbering receivers and when a rifle was built around one, using the last two digits on just about everything else. (The Germans and Austrians likewise at least pre WW2.)

What did surprise me about the Swedes in this respect was that they manufactured a number of spare actions each year in the early days and kept them on one side. (They must have assumed that serious wear and tear would occur over time, and/or maybe blow-ups to need new receivers for rebuilds down the line.) These receivers were assigned numbers as normal, but shown as spare and not against rifles assembled in any year. The year of manufacture and arsenal emblem was also used as normal.

I only discovered this in that I bought a 1907 engraved M1896 long service rifle which had a number of non-standard features and was drilled and tapped for the Soderin target aperture rearsight. When I looked up the serial number, it was shown as year 1907 spare and wasn't recorded against any complete rifle. The supposition was that the action (or at any rate the receiver) had been used as the basis of an armourer built (or even civilian rifle builder) target-service rifle at some stage, but without access to more detailed records and research it could have been assembled anytime between 1907 and the mid or late 1950s. The two-digit stamps on the smaller parts such as bottom metal and magazine floorplate were all mismatches, so it had presumably been largely assembled from the contents of a scrap bin, action aside.

 

[tobnpr]

Double-checked with Kuhnhausen's book...
Serial number would have been on the left side rail.