My Personal Collection

The following are from my personal collection and are not for resale.,

Caution!!! Be sure to have your drool cup ready!

 

Pietro Beretta #2001, May 1955

 

Springfield #93, 94, 95, & 96 August 1937

Type I Gas Trap Restorations.  M1 Garand production began in 1937 with serial# 81. The first 80 were shop model prototypes. Numbers 93, 94, 95 & 96 were made in July 1937 and were sent to various army posts for field testing by the troops.

 

Top: Springfield # 26497, January 1940. Type II Gas Trap (Restoration)
Bottom: Springfield #33880. Type III Gas Trap (Original)

 

Three Consecutive Winchester Educational Order M1's, #100432, 100433 & 100434, December 1940

 

A WINCHESTER AND A SPRINGFIELD WITH THE SAME SERIAL NUMBER!

Win-13 #1603926 (January 1945) and Springfield #1603926L (May 1943). The "L" was added  to distinguish it from the Winchester, although the standard ordnance  way of marking duplicates was with an "X"

 

Three consecutive WIN-13's

1613760
1613761
1613762

 

An amazing find of two consecutivly nubered M1's:

#3880255 came from Columbia
#3880256 came from Korea

Both rifles were bought by 2 friends and ended up in my collection.

 

HRA #4663324-5-6-7.

Barrels 3/53. Very early HRA production, with early style HRA stocks with ordnance wheel on left hand side, WWII Springfield op catches, hammers, and modified op rods.

 

Two consecutive Danish CMP's, SA 218217 & 218218

 

Two Consecutive PB's- PB 261 & 262

 

HRA 6034402 

In 1956, Springfield Armory allocated HRA 400 serial numbers in Springfield's six million range. This one was built up as an M1D.

 

2 Consecutive M1C's

SA 3451676

SA 3451677



Brand new M1's in cosmoline:

Top: SA 3757969 5/45
Middle: SA 3417616, 2/45
Bottom: WRA 2402884, 4/44
(This M1 is listed in Scott Duff's "The M1 Garand Serial Numbers  & Data Sheets)

 

NATIONAL  MATCH RIFLES:

Top to Bottom:
NM 6096706 Air Force Premium Grade match rifle
NM6095715 Type 1 National Match
NM x6000669 X-gun National match (The "X" denotes a special batch  of match rifles)
NM 5362051 Brand new Type 2 National Match

 

SNIPERS:

Top to bottom:
MC1952 Marine Snipers Springfield #3495671 with Kollmorgen Scope. DCM papers
M1C Springfield #3346966 1945 configuration. Title 10 papers