Guns International #: 102403257
Seller's Inventory #: 230475

Category - Military Rifles - Non-US - Mauser Rifles - Military

Category
Military Rifles - Non-US
Mauser Rifles - Military

c1886 SPANDAU ARSENAL 71/84 11.15x60mmR Rifle IMPERIAL GERMAN WWI Antique Boer Wars, Boxer Rebellion, Easter Rising

Description:
c1886  SPANDAU ARSENAL 71/84 11.15x60mmR Rifle IMPERIAL GERMAN WWI  Antique

Boer Wars, Boxer Rebellion, Easter Rising

Here we present an antique Mauser Pattern Gewehr Model 71/84 Bolt Action Rifle very likely made at the Spandau Arsenal in Western Berlin circa 1886. The Mauser Model 1871 adopted as the Gewehr 71 or Infanterie-Gewehr 71, or "Infantry Rifle 71" was the first rifle model in a line designed and manufactured by Paul Mauser and Wilhelm Mauser of the Mauser company and later mass-produced, as was this rifle, at the Spandau Arsenal.

Paul Mauser developed the single shot bolt-action rifle from 1867 to 1871. The Mauser was provisionally adopted on 2 December 1871, pending the development of an appropriate safety. With support from the government's Spandau arsenal, the improvements to the safety mechanism were completed and the rifle was formally accepted on February 14, 1872, as Infantry Rifle Model 1871 by the German Empire. The rifles were issued to the German Army from late 1873 to 1875, with approximately 1.82 million rifles and 80,000–100,000 carbines produced. After troop trials in 1882 and 1883, the design was updated in 1884 with an 8-round tubular magazine designed by Alfred von Kropatschek, making this the German Army's first repeating rifle. This version was designated the Gewehr 1871/84, of which over a million examples were produced.

These were used not only by Germany but in many conflicts throughout the world in that period to include: the Boer Wars, Sino-Japanese War, Boxer Rebellion, the Great War, the Easter Rising in Ireland, the immediate post-war German Revolution of 1918, and even World War II.

The overall condition is very good. The action is excellent. The bore is in great shape: bright with sharp rifling. The stock has a small repair at the top right around the receiver tang and a short, stable split under the stock at the nosecap; otherwise solid. The numbers match on the gun throughout with the exception of the bolt.

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 31-1/2 inches.

Caliber: 11.15x60mmR

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1850

#230475
 

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Antique: Yes