All three of those are M48BO rifles. BO means "without (manufacturer) markings". The Syrian has a Syrian crest, the Iraqi has either an Iraqi crest or jeem, and the Egyptian has no crest - but it does have a unique blued bolt, blued rear sight face, blued buttplate, and a marking disk cutout on the stock. There are also plenty of M48BO rifles around which have no indication as to what country or group they might have been sold; most probably stayed in Yugoslavia.

See the sticky Mausers, Only Mausers post 106 on page 6, post 158 on page 8, posts 636 & 637 on page 32, and post 638 on page 32. The index is in post 1 on page 1.

 

I checked my Syrian over and the only marks other than the crest are the Yugoslavian inspector/acceptance marks that you see on any of the post war M48 series. They are a V in a circle, M in a trapzoid, S in a circle & a V alone all located either on the floorplate, triggerguard, on the rear sight, the bolt root or the stock on the left hand side near the sling cut out.
Dan

 

This was the original request: Would someone please post the Iraq,Egypt,and Syrian markings (jeems??) that were on the Yugo M48BO Mausers. Not the crests.

Other than crests or jeems, there were NO "Iraq, Egypt, and Syrian markings" on the Iraqi, Egyptian, or Syrian M48BO rifles.

 

Bill
I guess I over thought it. What I was trying to get across was that my Syrian has no special marking other than the crest. Perhaps I need to take a rest.
Dan

 

Hi Dan,

No, your post was informative and appreciated. I was too lazy to go over a rifle and note all the inspection marks. I just made post #4 to clarify things.

I don't know what the OP was looking for. Perhaps he has an M48BO and is trying to identify the user country if other than Yugoslavia. Good luck on that.

Regards,
Bill

 

Bill, yes was trying to see if my M48BO had any markings other than the inspector markings. Frank

 

Frank
I looked at the bands on mine and they have the M in a trapizoid and the V in a circle mark. The Iraqi M48BO is the only one that I know of that can be identified by a mark other than a Yugoslavan inspection/acceptance mark. The "jeem" as it's called is sort of a curved line with a dot above it inside of a triangle with the left point cut off. I don't put much of a premium on a M48BO with "jeem" because I have seen stamps of that symbol being sold on "fleaBay".
Dan

 

Which point or points is cut off depends on which way the stamper was holding the stamp when hit. Jeem markings tend to be very sloppy.

These are the Iraqi M48BO rifles reported to date:

Iraqi Crest

V44934
W16903
W19170
W19268

Iraqi Jeem

V15065
V21394 (mine)
V44994
V44707
V47689
V51821
V55725

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These are the Jeem marked VZ24 rifles I know of:

X 4499 - (mine) (with 1925 acceptance marking)
3929 F2 - from old list
4192 G2 - from old list

These three are all early rifles; there is not a known contract for Iraq.

 

There you go. A picture is worth a 1,000 words. Thank You Bill.
Dan

 

Thanks all, your info as well as pics are very much appreciated. Frank