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If you enlarge the area of the serial you can see that the 1st 1 is not stamped but appears to have been engraved. It is not like the other 2 1s
I learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what I learned the day before was wrong
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I was going to sit this one out but felt I need to say...It's spelled "Niedner" and pronounced need-near.
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Sidelock
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I stand corrected...........I before E except after C.
Never could spell!
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Looks to me like an attempt to deceive an unwary buyer. In 1952, high # 1903 Springfield actions brought much more than a low # and the post-war Austrian economy was not roaring.
I must be naive. That is the first time I have ever seen anything like that.
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Don't tell Keith about the spelling rule.
I read or heard somwhere (I think) that the "Neidner" mispelling has been encountered in some of A.O.'s correspondence - as in he mispelled it some too.
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It should be noted that the NEIDNER marking is on the bottom of the barrel and not visible when the gun is together.
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Dan, The Austrian gunsmith that put the rifle together could have been named Neidner.
MM and I were talking about the rifle today and that was his idea, a good one I think given the 1952 date.
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At one time there were a lot of the 1901-2 actions around and all I have seen were in the white without name or numbers.
A gunsmith in Texas by the name of Folkery (sp?) made a lot of these scrap actions into sporters, all suspect in my eye.
I always wanted one of the actions for a paper weight but never found a good candidate.
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Michael, They do make nice paperweights. This one is actually in the white, some accident with the lighting makes it look gold.   And I don't know how unsafe they would be: You could have a correctly heat treated low (no) number Springfield 
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