Original German Gewehr 1888 S Commission Rifle by Danzig Reworked in Belgium for Export in 1930s - Dated 1889 Availability_International Edmunds on 11 December 1945

Edmunds on 11 December 1945

The main issue is that the grip is missing most of the leather

This is a fantastic WWII era portrait collage consisting of over a dozen pilots with their signatures

was a World War II German military formation made up predominantly of military volunteers with a Ukrainian ethnic background from the area of Galicia

From this time

Original German Gewehr 1888 S Commission Rifle by Danzig Reworked in Belgium for Export in 1930s - Dated 1889 Availability_International Edmunds on 11 December 1945Original Item: Only one Available. This is a interesting example of the iconic German Gewehr 1888 "Commission Rifle", also known as the Gewehr 88, or GEW 88. It was originally manufactured at Danzig Arsenal, located on the Baltic Sea in what is today Gdask Poland, in 1889. It then saw long service, most likely reissued for use during WWI, and was later necessary sold off as surplus due to the Treaty of Versailles, as it was definitely obsolete by