May 8-10, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/8/2024
Very desirable B.A.R. parts include nearly all of the parts needed to complete a registered receiver with “9-53” with flaming bomb proofed barrel with sight hood and flash hider, gas cylinder assembly with 1st style gas regulator, and smooth World War II style forend, operating rod, composite buttstock with flip-up buttplate, buffer assembly complete with disks, and bag of other internal parts including two additional 3rd model gas regulators, bolt, firing pin, trigger frame assembly, trigger, sear, springs, both takedown pins, selector, ejector plate, rear sight assembly, charging handle, mainspring guide (no mainspring present), blank firing adapter, and screw-on muzzle break. The remainder of this lot comprises of B.A.R. magazines and bandoleers, and these are very desirable also. There are 38 magazines total, all are 20 round magazines. There are 4 of the early “S” marked magazines and 2 of the “M” marked magazines. The rest are of later, most WW II vintage. There are three “right” bandoleers of World War I vintage. Two are marked “PLANT BROS & CO” and dated “11-1918”. The other is, “P.B. & CO” and dated “7 – 1918”. There is also a set of World War II bandoleers marked “D.M.SHOE CO / 1942”. This is the right and left side, and this set has a magazine loading tool in an original “GEIB Incorporated / 1943” marked pouch hanging from the left bandoleer. A modern loadbearing harness is attached to this set. There is also a “BEARSE MFG CO / 1943” marked pouch with an unattached magazine loader. CONDITION: The B.A.R metal parts are extremely fine matte gray finish except for the operating rod carrier, which has suffered some moderate pitting on one side. Likely will clean up to be serviceable. Wood forend and composite buttstock are near excellent. Internal parts are near excellent. Bore is near excellent shiny and bright. The bandoleer material is extremely fine, the WWII bandoleer has some green corrosion on the ”lift-the-dot” fasteners with some rust stains in the interior of the pockets where some of the magazines suffered some light surface corrosion during storage. Perhaps 7-8 of the magazine show some light surface corrosion in areas. All will clean up. Several of the magazines have a deeper smooth blue finish but most have a gray parkerized finish. Overall this is a very desirable lot of Browning Automatic Rifle Parts. If you have a gun and no spare parts, or if you want some extremely fine bandoleers to complete your ensemble, this lot is for you. JWK 2024-05-147.