The crossbolt typically has an inspection stamp." The rings, screws and sight components have also been consistently found to have these two last digits and the inspection marks as well. In some examples these two digits and the inspector's acceptance stamp have been found on every part of the bolt. The last two digits were also stamped on the cocking piece, safety lever, and nut. Just like the Mauser 71, the Model '88 has its test firing and final acceptance stamps on the right side of the receiver ring and on the stock behind the triggerguard. All of these carry inspection stamps as well. The Model 1888 had serial numbers stamped on the left side of the receiver ring, left side of the barrel, near the receiver ring, at the base of the bolt handle, on the triggerguard and on the buttplate. In this sense it is easy to identify those that were not purchased by Argentina. "While the rifles purchased by Argentina did not have any national marks to identify them as such, neither did they have any of the marks associated with the modifications made to virtually all European pieces between 18. so to answer your exact question, there would be zero Argentina usage.Īs far as telling these 5000 rifles from the other hundreds of thousands made, there is this cryptic paragraph from Colin Webster's book, which I quote exactly: So if you find a Commission Model 1888 in Argentina, it is likely to have arrived being carried in by German immigrants moving to Argentina after WWI (over 425,000 were made by Ludwig Loewe alone), and nearly 100% not likely to be the ones actually bought by Argentina.īy the way you called this rifle a Commission 1889, which there is no such thing - I assume you meant 1888.Īlso by the way you asked for info on usage - well they bought some, but never used them, and then civilians brought in perhaps some civilian ones, but they would also never have been "used" by Argentina officially / militarily in any way. Then when the M1891's arrived the entire lot of 5000 was sold to Peru (or Ecuador) at auction on January 19, 1892. These rifles were never issued in an effort to prevent mix-ups with ammunition. The rifles were manufactured by Ludwig Loewe & Cie for 81.50 Francs each.
Knowing it would still be some time before their Mauser 1891 models were delivered they needed a few rifles "right away" and so ordered 5000 Commission 1888 rifles ("Gewehr Model 1888") in the German caliber Mauser 8mm (7.92mm), a different caliber from the 7.65 they would soon be acquiring. So in January 1892 Argentina was facing possible war with Chile.
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