MAUSER ARCHIVE
Author: Jon Speed
Hardback– 576 pages
870 illustrations and photographs
ISBN: 0889354375
A treasure trove of previously unpublished data from the Mauser-Werke archives. Hundreds of original factory documents have miraculously been discovered, which give unprecedented insights into the Mauser firm almost from its inception to right through both world wars, and the post war French occupation period.In addition. some 300 fragile glass plate negatives have surfaced, after nearly a century of oblivion, which depict a variety of hitherto unknown sporting rifles in their original configurations and include rare prototypes and in the white or low serial numbered examples of Mauser small- bores. Schutzen-style, Wehmanns and Einheits target rifles. Includes a selection of full colour views of high-grade Mauser sorters from the worlds finest collections.
