Rifles marked with the Chilean crest and OVS were intended for the Oranje Vrij Staat, Orange Free State. Not to further confuse - there are a couple/few other 1893 Mauser series that did end up in South Africa and some that didn't. It is not pronounced 'boar'.) Boer is the Dutch word for farmer. In addition the serial number prefix C, identifies it as one of 5,000 rifles in that series sold to the good and fine Dutch volk of the ZAR who taught the British army some hard lessons in marksmanship and how simple Dutch farmers could deliver a serious case of whoopass to the world's most powerful army. The ZAR Mauser has what is called, to collectors, a generic side rail address in that it has no country or model as the 1895 Chilean does. Due to a British navel blockade these rifles never made it to South Africa so they were sent back to Germany where the crest was rollmarked to Chile and off they went. It was made for Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic) or ZAR. But the 1893 was not made for Chile initially. One is an 1893 model, the other an 1895 model. ![]() This will be ongoing with more photos added.
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