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As pictured:

9.3x62

An old Guild rifle by the looks of it. I'll take it for 500.00. Not sure about dealing with the bases.

Judging by the style of the barrel, the style of engraving and the "U" proof mark on the receiver, it may have been customized in Germany off a type b sporter. I believe the action predates WW2.

Some stuff about the rifle is decent, but definitely an abomination to my eye. No checkering, mangling and soldering of the receiver for those stoopid bases.

Like bluefish stated, I don't see you getting much more than $500 for the thing. Maybe $700-800 on gun-broker-crack-smoker

German clawmounts ain't stoopid, just inconvenient for those having to spend for the fitting of the rings to go with them.
The 9.3x62mm chambering ought to make it worth something.
An old man brought one into a Cave City, KY gunshow in 2019, and sold it to a dealer for $800.
He looked old enough to have brought it home as WWII souvenir.
It was an August Schuler 8x57mm that looked a lot like yours but had checkering and horn butt plate.
Worm-eaten horn had to be replaced.
The dealer ended up spending $2000 extra on the gun for "restoration."
Horn buttplates and German claw rings ain't cheap.

Hacking a big dovetail into the the front bridge of the rifle isn't appealing many folks. I'd imagine the thickness of the receiver is paper thin from the bottom of the dovetail to the top of the lug recess inside the receiver. All that debilitating alteration to the strength of the receiver, for obsolete rings.

Anyhoo, looking over Paul Mauser's drawings of square bridge Mauser improvements in the John speed Mauser book, I like that much better, when scopes are involved......

It's an 'O. Geyger and Co. Berlin' rifle..............

I’m thinking closer to $1,000

Thanks Bugger, found out a few other things:

Proofed in December 1928........

curious though as to the meaning, purpose, of the proof mark, there is two of them, under the G, I assume they actually belong to the Crown B and the Crown U proofs, IF ANYONE KNOWS ABOUT THAT PROOF help me out .....