Packet of Roth-Steyr 8mm ammo

[Bill Grist]

Enjoy this un-opened 1914 Dated packet of 8mm Roth-Steyr ammo on a stripper clip.. A very hard to locate packet of AMMO...BILL

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[Jason]

Nice gun ,looks like it belongs in Star Wars, alla Han Solo

[leondes]

Hi Bill,

Very impressive. First one I have seen!!

Regards, Leon

[Bill Grist]

Leon, I have never seen another except in a book and it had been opened...BILL

[JoeW]

Bill, what do you think the Made in Italy is doing on the box?

[Bill Grist]

Bill, what do you think the Made in Italy is doing on the box?

Joe, I don't know but there are several in reference books with the same Made In Italy on them.. In the same color Ink as the Georg Roth Factory Lichtenworth, Austria is marked in..BILL

[Ostmark]

Hallo Bill

Lichtenwörth is in near my hometown, i have found a blank (exercise)
cartridge for the Steyr Roth years ago with my scope. A few Roths where
also found in this area. A gunsmith had a nice collection of Roths and
spareparts ... interesting was, that you cannot change the part form one Roth and use it for another Roth. Mostly the trigger parts are adopted to fit exactly, by hand.

Btw do your Steyr Roth have any unit stamps on the other grip. You know on the metal disk (hope thats correct in english)

[Bill Grist]

Hallo Bill

Lichtenwörth is in near my hometown, i have found a blank (exercise)
cartridge for the Steyr Roth years ago with my scope. A few Roths where
also found in this area. A gunsmith had a nice collection of Roths and
spareparts ... interesting was, that you cannot change the part form one Roth and use it for another Roth. Mostly the trigger parts are adopted to fit exactly, by hand.

Btw do your Steyr Roth have any unit stamps on the other grip. You know on the metal disk (hope thats correct in english)

Her you go Unit disc to The Dragoons...BILL

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...highlight=roth

[JoeW]

Your RFV Roth Steyr is something else Bill. I have one that has an Austrian Gendarmerie Kommando marking on the disc: L.G.K.? Can't recall the Land right now. Will look for a photo.

I was thinking about that cartridge box. You don't suppose those were left in some Austrian arsenal in portion of the territory ceded to Italy after WWI. After they were declared surplus, they were exported to the US surplus demand and marked with country of origin as required?

[Douglas Jr.]

Btw do your Steyr Roth have any unit stamps on the other grip. You know on the metal disk (hope thats correct in english)

Hi Ostmark,

Here is my Roth-Steyr issued to the 15. Dragoon Regiment:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...highlight=roth

Douglas

[Bill Grist]

Your RFV Roth Steyr is something else Bill. I have one that has an Austrian Gendarmerie Kommando marking on the disc: L.G.K.? Can't recall the Land right now. Will look for a photo.

I was thinking about that cartridge box. You don't suppose those were left in some Austrian arsenal in portion of the territory ceded to Italy after WWI. After they were declared surplus, they were exported to the US surplus demand and marked with country of origin as required?

.. Joe, That is a good thought.. I had given it similar thought, given as war booty at the end of WW1 to Italy and then sold as surplus ammo...BILL

[JoeW]

Either way got it into Italian hands without them paying for it. And the marking would be required to ship into the US from point of origin. Obviously not Italian made. I can't think of another reason for the marking.