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Griffin & Howe 250-3000 Savage, # 1117, Mauser Action, Made in 1931
Guns International #: 101277806 Seller's Inventory #:
Category: Griffin & Howe Rifles -
Seller's Information
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Seller: James Birch
Member Since: 6/17/18
First Name: James
Last Name: Birch
State: Ohio
Zip: 44004
Country: United States
Phone: (440) 997-0428
Number of Active Listings: 12
Total Number of Listings: 62
Seller: Private Seller
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
Payment Types Accepted: US Postal Mondey Order, Certified Bank Check
Description:
$5299.00 SOLD plus shipping, materials, ins. Puglisi sold one for $7499.00.
Note: I replaced one of the pictures with a picture of the rifling in the bore. It is the last picture. My friend has a great camera phone with three lenses, but it wants to automatically switch the lense whenever you go to take a picture. The bore is clean, and it was hard to take a picture from the breech end of the barrel. So we took a couple from the muzzle end, and this was the one that best shows the rifling in the gun. Hope this helps.
I went out and got a good digital scale. I wanted to be totally accurate with the weight of the gun. The rifle weighs exactly 7 pounds, 11 oz. Hope this helps.
I am no expert on Mausers, but I believe this to be a Standard Mauser "large ring" action. The floorplate screws measure 7 3/4" center to center. The front bridge looks to be just a tad over 1 3/8", which (according to the experts) would make it about the 1.4" on a large ring action. The barrel, as noted earlier, is 22". I rechecked the LOP, and from the trigger to the middle of the buttplate it is actually about 13 5/8". It's very close to that. The bore is somewhat dark, but the lands and grooves look good.
For sale is a Griffin & Howe Mauser actioned 250-3000 Savage. This gun was probably made in in late 1931 or early 1932. The gun was built when George Hyde and Samuel Leonard worked at Griffin & Howe. Samuel Leonard had been the head stockmaker at Purdey's and had emigrated to the United States. George Hyde was the foreman of the shop at Griffin & Howe. These two gentleman kept their positins at Griffin & Howe until around early 1935. Seymour Griffin was a very astute businessman, and according to the files of Lucian Cary, worked 7 days a week during the Depression Period. Syemour Griffin let no gun go out of the shop that wasn't built correctly. His workers had that same "Mind-set."
Griffin, then, only hired the best gunsmiths from overseas, and he paid them a very fair wage. To be sure, the guns that Griffin & Howe built during the early Depression years ( and probably the later Depression years) were the best that they ever built. To have the head stockmaker at Purdey's and the foreman of the shop, George Hyde, who, incidentally, invented the M-3 Grease Gun, as the leading smiths of the shop, certainly led credence to the credibility of the arms produced during this time frame.
The gun was built in late 1931 or early 1932. It features a blank stock oval, 13 5/8 LOP from the trigger to the end of the butt plate (later style Model 54 or earlier style Model 70). It appears that the gun was seldom used, although the gun retains sharp checkering and crisp metal work in the stock, was not particularly well cared for. You will note the slight frecking on the metal, and the corrosion on the (Model 70 style--early--butt plate. The stock oval is blank, unengraved. The Mauser action features a jeweled bolt, and a machine-turned follower and raceway. There are no records currently as to the history of the gun.
The 250/3000 is a scarce caliber in the early Griffins. Not many of them were made.
Shipping to the lower 48 states only. No international sales. No returns. Email or call with any questions.
Thank you.
SOLD
Curio/Relic: Yes
Manufacturer: Griffin & Howe
Serial Number: 1117
Caliber Info: 250-3000
Barrels: 22