![]() ![]() By the end of production, only the barrel (back of barrel extension, behind the rear sight), the frame and lock frame (on top, only visible on a stripped gun), and the inside of the floorplate were numbered, and the frame, lock frame, and floorplate didn't merit the full six digits. The trend during the Stable Production period was toward numbers on fewer parts as time went on. Guns with long extractors have lower serial numbers than guns with short extractors, cone hammers have lower serials than large ring hammers, which in turn have lower serials than small ring hammers, 1000 meter sights with a '900' range are found on guns with lower serials than are sights without the '900', etc.Some contract guns had their own serial number ranges, starting with 1.1896 - Turkish Contract - 1,000 guns - the books say that these were numbered in Farsi. But roughly speaking, features changed sequentially. Probably a bit of both.There can be considerable overlap of basically sequential features - some known guns with the Second Type safety have higher serial numbers than some others with the later New Safety, for instance. ![]() This was either blatant deception - the cone hammers only lasted until production reached the 12,000 to 14,000 range - or Mauser was sloppy about updating the illustrations. A German-language instruction manual with a cone hammer illustrated on the cover claims that 60,000 guns had been made. ![]()
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