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I'm not sure where you got the Geco connection from. The rifle is marked KABA which is for Carl (/Karl) Bauer, a 1920s gun smith/retailer from Berlin. This rifle dates from post WWI and was most likely made from surplus parts/NOS parts at hand. You can see another KABA marked Gew98 here: Hermann Historica - Internationales Auktionshaus für Antiken, Alte Waffen, Orden und Ehrenzeichen, Historische Sammlungsstücke . Or you may compare it with a Nazi era .22 training rifle pictured here: https://www.k98kforum.com/threads/kaba-spezial-sport-buchse-ges-gesch.2801/ . Hence this is NOT an Imperial German rifle.
Your rifle is extremely nice and surely not many like it were made. Thank you for sharing it!
Your rifle is extremely nice and surely not many like it were made. Thank you for sharing it!
