bigredone

Hi all After speaking to a gun dealer It looks like my Grease gun, along with others was sold to China at some point where all the marking were removed and during the 1980/90's they were brought and imported to the UK by a british gun dealer. Mystery solved?????? Best wishes Paul

Thanks for the info Jim c, I am going to a militaria show this coming Sunday and I will have a look out for a "Brit" grease gun and try and take some pictures for you. In the last year I have seen loads of grease guns for sale over here in the UK, but I did hear the stock coming out of Russia was drying up. Best wishes Paul

Hi I have taken some more pictures of my unkown (as yet) M3. Here are the pictures of all the numbers/markings I can find, the crossed swords are the british deactivation markings. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100888.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100887.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100886.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100885.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100884.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100883.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100882.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100880.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100878.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100877.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100875.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/P1100871.jpg Now as you can see on the top of the magazine well I have now found the remainds of a "G" and to the botton left on the mag release guard is the remains of the "Guide" signature. This is where the plot thickens, in Franks Iannamico's book on page 66 (I wont reproduce the picture as I have not asked permission) it looks like my M3 had the same markings postion as the M3A1!!!??? although mine is a M3. As said before there are the remains of the ordanace stamp and of a "5" (looks like a 3 but im sure it is a 5) below the restamp 5. Anyone???? Best wishes Paul

Jim C History: Sorry, know nothing of it as it was a present, if I can find out where it was purchased I might be able to find out something...watch this space. I can see no outher markings on the greaser, but will have another look, not sure what "lend lease" marks look like. Did you know it was only last year or the year before Britian made the last "lend lease" payment to the US! This is what we call in the UK a deactivated to "old spec" weapon, which means it can be cocked and dry fired only, the firing pin is removed and the barrel is blocked off. A "new spec" deactivated weapon is where hardly nothing works on it as most of the moving parts are welded up.......that is the law over here. As far as I know there are very few examples of US WW2 type live/blank firing weapons over here. Anyone can own a deactivated weapon, they are easy to get hold of over here. They are mainly imported ex US lend lease weapons to Russia WW2 stock. It is the live ones you have to have permission from the police to hold. The latest is that the British government are trying to get all "old spec weapons" converted to "new spec" which would be disastrous to us collectors. I have in my collection the following: M1 Garand 1941 M1 Carbine 1943 BAR 1944 .30 cal Browning (mounted on the Jeep) Thompson 1928 Thompson M1A1 Colt 1911 60mm Mortar M1A1 Bazooka (reproduction, but exact replica) M3 Grease gun I am going to try and get over to visit the militaria "Show of shows" in Kentucky next year. Best wishes Paul

Hi Jim c Thanks for taking the time to reply. The plot thickens re the serial number, why would it have been re stamped?? there also looks to be a "5" remaining in the filed off section. I will have to do some more digging around. I have ordered the Grease gun book from a dealer over here in the UK, I look forward to reading it. Just to check is the oiler the exact same as the M1 Carbine oiler??? as I need to get one. Best wishes Paul Ps On closer inspection of the photo I can see part of the ordanance mark that has been covereved over, the 5 as mentioned above is more or less directly below the re stamped last "5".........I am very curious now!

Hi guys I am new to this forum, so please be gentle with me! I am a reenactor in the UK and I reenact the 1st ID 16th IR F Company throughout WW2 period. I have recent got my hands on a Grease gun and I am looking to date it, it does not have the Guide Lamp name stamped on it in the usual plase, but it looks WW2 to me. Can anyone out there confirm if this a WW2 one. Someone has filed something off under the US number? http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/CIMG3624.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/CIMG3625.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/bigredone/CIMG3626.jpg Best wishes Paul