He then sold the rifle minus the sling and cleaning rod for $125. I traded one ( Scrubbed version) for an Israeli 308 K98 because the guy wanted the original sling on my shooter. They are difficult to sell unless they are the intact VZ rifles.
No one wanted the scrubbed ones except for the receiver or for farm rifles. Those scrubbed or sterilized Vz 24s were the bottom of the barrel rifles, most purchased ones with intact crests, original finish stocks, cleaning rods and original slings at $150 back in the day. As a thought, not to be a critical old buzzard. Unfortunately there is little published information in English about VZ 24 rifles. Used Czechoslovak Army VZ24 rifles (or mostly used and some unused) went to Germany. It seems that a large quantity of unused Czechoslovak Army VZ24 rifles were sold to Romania at the beginning of the Romanian contract. A small number may have overlapped into 1939 and/or 1941. The crests would not have changed before King Michael took over.įacts A and B bracket the Romanian contract within 1940 or nearly so. My King Michael crest VZ24 is a TR block. The King Michael crest replaced the King Carol crest on the rifles late in the AR-YR series. King Michael replaced King Carol on September 6, 1940. They have to have first been Slovak accepted in 1940 and later taken for use with Romanian contract rifles - and serial matched with those rifles.ī. There are far too many Slovak marked bayonets mixed in with Romanian contract bayonets for them to have been Romanian bayonets taken for Slovak use. I have a BR bayonet in a CR scabbard, both dated Slovak 1940. It seems that most, if not all, of the AR-YR Romanian contract rifles were made in 1940.Ī. Serbian and Yugoslav Mauser Rifles by Branko Bogdanovic Japanese rifles have been reported with a C prefix. They were later sold to Romania along with other unused VZ24 rifles in the Czech Army inventory. These were intended for export but some were taken for the Czech Army and so marked.
#Czech mauser rifle serial numbers database series
Of this grouping, the P series was by far the largest. I have a Japanese VZ24 P61600 and a Chinese VZ24 P49939 (bolt P17616). In 1937-38 there was also a no prefix series, a C prefix, D, E, and P. In 1929 Yugoslavia bought 50,000 more VZ24 for an overall total of 92,000 VZ24 rifles. In January 1926 Yugoslavia bought 42,000 VZ24 rifles. That would mean if 1926 production were 5005A-9999Z and 0001A1-1140K1 would be at least 335,136 rifles.Īfter the initial letter prefix batch was completed, serial numbers ran: We know from the website that both 5005A and 1140K1 are marked E(lion)26. If it were xxxxA through xxxxZ and xxxxA1 through xxxxZ1, that would be a lot of rifles for 1926. The second series of VZ24 serial numbers were xxxxA, xxxxB, xxxxC, xxxxD1, xxx圎1, etc. The I block was skipped, possibly because of the similarity to the number 1. The Q and W blocks were skipped because those letters do not exist in the Czech alphabet. Andy said "I believe in late 1925 was changed to 90% of changeability". Somewhere around here the change occurred to interchangeable parts with few numbered parts. My X block VZ24 rifle is marked E(lion)25. S block VZ24 rifle reported marked E(lion)24. N, O, P, R blocks: 40,000 VZ24 short rifles produced in 1924. Made in 1924, the lion is in a circle like the 1923 rifles and bayonets. The type bayonet information comes from the three Czech websites but I have a VZ24 bayonet marked E(lion)24. My M block VZ23a rifle has a removable rear sight bed. M block: 10,000 VZ23a short rifles produced in 1924 with removable rear sight bed, VZ24 bayonet (300mm blade). Both D block VZ98/22 and VZ23 rifles are reported, suggesting the changeover between models may have occurred midway through the D block.
No prefix block: 10,000 VZ98 long rifles (with Lange sight), produced in 1923, VZ23 Short bayonet (250mm blade).Ī, B, C, D blocks: 40,000 VZ98/22 long rifles produced in 1923, VZ23 Short bayonet.Į block: 10,000 VZ98/22 long rifles made for Turkey in 1927, VZ23 Short bayonetĭ, E, F, G, H, J, K, L blocks: 80,000 VZ23 short rifles produced in 1923, VZ23 Long bayonet (400mm blade). VZ98, VZ98/22, VZ23, VZ23a, and early VZ24 Rifle Production
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