T-29 M-1 Garand

[kennethc]

IS this the T-29 M-1 or homemade reproduction?

Stamped :Springfield Armory
Serial : 15377

Can someone tell me if the receiver was cut?

[kennethc]

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[kennethc]

I was told 20,000 of these were made? Is this one of them?

[kennethc]

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[Jeff V]

I'm sorry with those pictures I can't tell you anything. We need close ups of the receiver markings that can be read, close ups of the sides of the receiver to see if it was cut. I will say I do not like the color of the parkerizing.
best wishes,
jeff

[kennethc]

Someone told me It's T-26 Tanker M-1 Garrand.

[ottomaton]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but the finish on that wood looks exceptionally not original.

The shine is abnormal and the particular patern of the marbling of the wood looks to me like it was sanded and refinished non-professionally.

[kennethc]

Question:
Is a Waxed original M1 woodstock looked like the one shown over?

[ottomaton]

Ok. I took these photos off of various auction sites. They are M1's with various degrees of aging.






As the guns get old, the wood darkens but stays uniform in color. You can also see how it's a very dull non-reflective color.

Here's your gun with the three-tone color highlighted:



There are quite a few rebuilt M1's out there with where the different pieces of the wood don't match each other, but they are always uniform within themselves.

I would imagine that all of the gun was the shade of the color on the left-hand arrow. Somebody decided clean it by sanding. They were not able to do so uniformly.

I would imagine if the wax is present it is to hide the fact that some of the bits underneath are unfinished wood.

There are some M1 Carbines or non-original modifications that I've seen with fancy figured wood stocks like you would see on a nice shotgun but it looks different, like the following:

[Jeff V]

Yes, you are right that wood is horrible. Nothing like the proper finish at all.
jeff

[Captain Emo]

Please take no offense, but the park job on the receiver is scary. I wonder what it's hiding?

[Frogprince]

The stock itself is Birch (postwar) - the hand guard (?). Postwar rear sight etc. etc. My guess is that someone took a heavily corroded receiver, polished out most of the pitting, and applied a late type (zinc) phosphate finish to the metal. I also would not be surprised to find that the receiver had been cut and welded (but you can’t really tell for sure from the pictures). I could go on - but it’s certain that the rifle is not an original as it sits. FP

[Gary Cain]

There are only two original Tanker Garands out there. One is in the Springfield Armory museum and I don't remember where the other one is. This is probably one of the batch made in the 1970's. There was a second batch made in the 1980's- early 90's and they were made by the civilian Springfield armory (the good ones) Fed Ord (really, really bad ones) and in the late 1960's a company called Santa Fe Arms also put some together.


Gary

[kennethc]

Thanks for the info... They're very helpful!