FYI - The Type 2 FG42 optics featured on pp.187-89 in the recently revised edition of 'Death From Above' are currently for sale at Simpson Ltd. This set has a matched serial number (04522) to the T2 Kriegoff FG42 held by the Springfield Armory Museum.
As an aside this T2 set of optics has served to expose many fraudulent sets assembled from incomplete ring sets found in the late '70's/early '80's. These sets were subsequntly completed (levers/cams) by an OH based Class 3 dealer/manufacturer who finished sets based on imagination rather than an existing example or period documentation. The complete sets were sold and have (until recently) come to be believed as original.
Generally speaking legit FG42 optics are far rarer than the actual FG42's themselves.
As an aside this T2 set of optics has served to expose many fraudulent sets assembled from incomplete ring sets found in the late '70's/early '80's. These sets were subsequntly completed (levers/cams) by an OH based Class 3 dealer/manufacturer who finished sets based on imagination rather than an existing example or period documentation. The complete sets were sold and have (until recently) come to be believed as original.
Generally speaking legit FG42 optics are far rarer than the actual FG42's themselves.
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