Steel butt or not

[standfast]

Which is more collectable - a matching mauser with the steel butt or no steel butt? Thanks Mike

[pitts duncan]

matching butt plates?

I assume you mean the metal butt plate . most k98 mausers i have seen have a flat steel butt plate or a cupped butt plate that is steel also. i think the flats were early production as i have in my matching 1941 k98 and the butt plate has same serial number as gun . the cupped i think are later production and i would think no real difference in the butt plate related to value as long as its correct. the matching numbers is what makes either worth more money.

[standfast]

I assume you mean the metal butt plate . most k98 mausers i have seen have a flat steel butt plate or a cupped butt plate that is steel also. i think the flats were early production as i have in my matching 1941 k98 and the butt plate has same serial number as gun . the cupped i think are later production and i would think no real difference in the butt plate related to value as long as its correct. the matching numbers is what makes either worth more money.

Yup, thank you for the correct info. You're spot on ("THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW "FLAT STEEL BUTT")
Cheers
Mike

[geopop71]

Butt plate

The flat steel Butt plate would be more desireable since as the man said. it has the matching serial number. My 42 BCD has the serial number stamped on the flat steel plate. Cupped plates do not have that feature, but that does not take any thing away from an all matcher so long as the plate is correct. Earlier
Mauser's are the most sought after.
geopop

[standfast]

The flat steel Butt plate would be more desireable since as the man said. it has the matching serial number. My 42 BCD has the serial number stamped on the flat steel plate. Cupped plates do not have that feature, but that does not take any thing away from an all matcher so long as the plate is correct. Earlier
Mauser's are the most sought after.
geopop

I totally agreed with you "MAUSER'S ARE THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER"

[MauserKar98k]

The flat steel Butt plate would be more desireable since as the man said. it has the matching serial number. My 42 BCD has the serial number stamped on the flat steel plate. Cupped plates do not have that feature, but that does not take any thing away from an all matcher so long as the plate is correct. Earlier Mauser's are the most sought after.
geopop

On the contrary, cupped buttplates often have a serial number and letter code, but since they were contracted, made, and sold to Mauser by a different firm, the codes are of course different. Flat buttplates are numbered to match the rifle.

Example on a beautiful bcd, 8th photo down: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...?Item=86910690

In answer to your question Standfast, flat buttplates that have serial numbers that match the rifle are the most desireable.

[standfast]

On the contrary, cupped buttplates often have a serial number and letter code, but since they were contracted, made, and sold to Mauser by a different firm, the codes are of course different. Flat buttplates are numbered to match the rifle.

Example on a beautiful bcd, 8th photo down: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...?Item=86910690

In answer to your question Standfast, flat buttplates that have serial numbers that match the rifle are the most desireable.

Awesome man,
Thank you for this info. I just bought two all matching number mausers and I can't wait to receive them. This one for sell on gunbroker is very nice too, but there is no way they sell the rifle to NZ eh.
Cheers
Mike

[MauserKar98k]

Awesome man,
Thank you for this info. I just bought two all matching number mausers and I can't wait to receive them. This one for sell on gunbroker is very nice too, but there is no way they sell the rifle to NZ eh.
Cheers
Mike

Be sure to post pics of both once you get them.

[Michael Page]

On the contrary, cupped buttplates often have a serial number and letter code, but since they were contracted, made, and sold to Mauser by a different firm, the codes are of course different. Flat buttplates are numbered to match the rifle.

I have a R/C with a cupped buttplate, and the serial number matches the rifle. Was that possibly done by the Russians?

[gew98]

The flat steel Butt plate would be more desireable since as the man said. it has the matching serial number. My 42 BCD has the serial number stamped on the flat steel plate. Cupped plates do not have that feature, but that does not take any thing away from an all matcher so long as the plate is correct. Earlier
Mauser's are the most sought after.
geopop

Early cupped plates were serialed liek the forged plates. I had a bcd41 'a' block with a perfectly numbered cupped buttplate. As well I have encountered a few others like a ce41 I had and every now and then I found original numbered cupped plates in parts bins. A bcd42 with a flat buttplate - this is not a depot rebuild is it ?.