Anyone know what these fit?
Other than being stamped '26' on the underside there are no other marks on them. The 26 I'd gather is for 26mm as the rings are just over 1" in dia.
All steel and bright polished blue.
Tapered dovertail mounting.
Shame someone let them sit and gather some rust spots.
Trying to sort out some misc accumulations from a friend.
Scopes & mounts are not my strong point!

Any help is appreciated.

Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I think those are early Sako rings.

off topic, but how do you get them around the scope?

They are Old. Ya gotta take the scope apart and slide the tube in.

Look like sakos to me

The above replies are correct.

They are SAKO rings designed to fit the dovetails on the older SAKO rifles.

Also you need to take the scope apart to install them.

In Europe it used to be a common practice, just like it was done on steel tubed scopes that have half rings soldered to the tube.

I could be,,and very well might be wrong..but it seems to me you had to BEND the rings, then BEND them back...much like the Pete Grisel rings. I know...pretty radical...

The old BUEHLER solid one piece rings required that the scope be dissembled to install the rear ring. The ring cross section was such that you could not even dream of bending the ring.
I bought a used M70 with the old solid sings on it with a K2.5 Weaver scope with post and cross hair mounted in it. It was a very low close to the bore and was a rugged set up.

These mounts were made for SAKO but I'm quite sure they weren't made in SAKO factory. If they were, there must be somewhere text "SAKO".

Back in the 50's and 60's there were some imitation rings made like the Sako rings but the finish and polishing was poorly done. These look more like origional Sako rings to me. Bill

I'm writing from memory here, but there used to be 26mm tube scopes which, as far as I know, are pretty rare these days. Given that a 1 inch tube is 25.4mm these rings are more or less of a relic these days.

26mm and 22mm (7/8") are/were relatively standard sizes for European scopes of the earlier 20th century, and several US scopes (Lyman, Kollmorgen/Redfield, Weaver for instance) were made in those sizes. Also at least one Continental maker offered Sako-type tapered dovetail bases for other rifles, so these type mounts may also be found on Mausers etc. FYI, I don't have any idea who actually made these.
Regards, Joe

Original Sako rings for a 26mm tubed scope that would have had removable turrets and occular.

26mm was very common up until the early 90s.

Thank you to everyone for the responses and info.
They look very well machined, polished and blued. Just the unfortunate rust spots from poor storage.