In short, am afraid my best guess would be Bubba, though, as I stated earlier, not with malice aforethought. ![]() It is only recently that original 98Cs (112000-135000) have become valuable, but they are also shunned by many collectors for the very reason this question came up - they can easily be faked, though such arms are normally found in M99 (32") stocks. (4) Absolutely no one was faking Krag carbines in 1957, so, you got a "fair shake". (3) Am giving you the benefit of the doubt on the barrel and front sight - it may be genuine carbine, it may not. (2) The arm has a rifle sight (never applied to a carbine officially) Later carbines were marked "Model 1899" so there is no mystery with them. It is impossible to tell, even within the known range, which receiver was on a carbine and which was on a rifle, once reduced to the "parts" level. No one knows their path through life, but they are scarce today. ![]() ![]() (1) Some 5000+ 1898C stocks were put on the surplus market (available to Bannerman, and Bubba) around 1900, when the arms were recalled and restocked en masse. Sorry, but that is an absolutely impossible question.
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