[NW Swede]

I recently received a letter from the USDA confirming that this m/96 handguard is mahogany. I found it in a box of loose handguards, and picked it out because of the purple / red tint to the wood color, and because the grain didn't look like walnut to me. After studying pictures of known mahogany stocked rifles, I suspected it was mahogany, so I took a small sample from the underside and sent it in for analysis. The serial number, 375330, dates it to 1916. Now if I could just find the rest of the rifle.

 

[sheepdawg]

Your luck finding handguards has me scracthing my head. :? You find the rarest of the rare in boxes just laying around where as I have to comb the ends of the earth to find one that's just semi rare. Great find, now for the rest of the rifle.