Does anyone know what one of these is worth ? there is one for sale here for $5000 Aust ,which i thought was cheap ,but dont have a spare 5G at the moment .There was also one in the Pretoria military museum ,evidently they made 18000 of them .

Boys, PTRD, Lahti L39??
Mauser ???
There was more than one?

A local shop had one a while back that came from a local museum. It was a Mauser 1918 T-Gewher. Asking price was 10K. IIRC it was eventually sold to a collector on the East Coast for 7K. I had a chance to look at it before it was sold. A very impressive and massive rifle.

http://world.guns.ru/atr/de/mauser-t-gewehr-e.html

A local shop had a L39 for years. Too big to put on any shelf or cabinet it was left on the floor near the front door. It eventually sold for $6000 - (about 1990 or so). The new owner had no place to store it so it stayed in the floor in the shop for several more years.

There was a New unused bolt for one of these that sold on Guns Int for $1500.00 ,there an interesting post on Great war forum about a tank being shot up by one

Have a look back through some old Auction catalogues as I think one was sold through there.

That one I think came from Miall's Gunshop.

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Saw one auctioned @10,000 US.

If you're passing through Northern Virginia you can see one at Clark's hanging from the ceiling.

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Originally posted by tankhunter:
There was a New unused bolt for one of these that sold on Guns Int for $1500.00 ,there an interesting post on Great war forum about a tank being shot up by one

Can you dirrect me to that post? I can't seem to find it. I would very much like to read it.

The bolt:

http://www.gunsamerica.com/910..._Tank_Rifle_Bolt.htm

If you'll look in the gun rags' display advertising of the late 50s, early 1960s, you'll fairly frequently find them for sale for $100 or less...sometimes much less. I never bought any because the ammo was as much per round as some of the surplus rifles were apiece.

They were BIG single shot bolt actions and everyone I ever knew or read about who fired one didn't much care for the recoil. Plus, to be honest, the workmanship looked a bit crude to me.

check out youtube for some anti-tank rifle videos

Just for fun

Left is the 13mm T-Gewear round, 2nd is the 50BMG 3rd is the 55 Boys right is a 50 Vickers HV
While there were some later, rimless, versions of the German round, all the correct rimmed rounds were made in 1918. The entire project was a late war rush job, due to the fielding of British tanks at the end of the war.
While 5K Aust would be a good price for the rifle, the rounds run in the 75-100 US each range and can't be made from anything else (the Boys rifle was at least easily re-barreled to 50BMG)