![]() Also the added crescent moon stamps I saw on G98 looked very crude and were placed at random either above or below the WMO maker markings, often very clumsy struck, off centre and sometimes multiples, seeming at random. Do we know what years the G98 WM0 were sent to Turkey and what year date to expect on receiver? I read that most of 1916/17 production of WMO G98 went to Turkey but again this is one comment of one person I read online and I prefer to get my info here from people who have done the research. This is really interesting, thank you all for posting. much like the Spanish Civil War, where unlikely "suppliers" supplied unlikely customers ( like Göring, Poland, Yugoslavia and Greece playing the supplier-middleman for the "Republicans", which were rather distant in ideology, the "Republicans" a bunch of socialists, Liberals, anarchists-atheists and secessionists led increasing by communists) Arms smuggling and selling was brisk business for Germany, almost all illegal but German rifles made their way to all the hotspots, often through the Dutch (Netherlands) but also illegally through German ports, including to the Russians (Bolsheviks), this sometimes broke in the German press to the annoyance of the government.Īnyway, it is probable many German rifles found their way to Turkey through unlikely countries after the war. which it could be a special need in Germany for some rifles or the rails lines were cut as in the last period of the war.Īs Turkey found itself involved in several unpleasant conflicts after the war (most "historians" conveniently ignore or "forget" the tragedy the war caused for most of Central and Eastern Europe, a literal bloodbath that was on the scale of the "Great War" itself in some areas, genocidal in much of the east, - Wilson's War (and American bankers), that gave England and France their vindictive "peace" instead of a negotiated settlement was no bounty for many in Eastern Europeans.) and this probably accounts for some of the diversity in arms. which seems to suggest these were marked in Germany and didn't make it to Turkey. it is possible they were marked in Turkey though I say this is unlikely because these are several crescent marked WMO G98's that stayed in German service after the war. Further it "seems" that the crescent was added in Germany, possibly WMO, but possibly at Spandau where (if i recall correctly) these were gathered for shipment to Turkey. However, what we know is that not all, nor a majority of WMO G98's from 1917-1918 were sent, they tends to show this trend in actual observations, but it is more that more "survived" than their "German" (issue) counterparts. There are many things that can be said about the Turkish contract rifles, - much of it thanks to Jon Speed, I wrote a brief article on the subject on my website quite a few years ago, I should revisit it with updated trends. ![]()
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