The plans were approved and put into work the same year. The new work should act as a branch of the Jönköping arsenal, where water supply had become irregular. In 1689 the manager at the nearby state arsenal in Jönköping, Erik Dahlbergh, suggested to the King that the crown should support the construction of a new milling work at the waterfalls just outside Huskvarna. In the '50's & '60's SAKO sold some US companies like Colt & H&R a quantity of receivers before the SAKO line was firmly established in the US market enough to utilize all the production of SAKO receivers in house.Īs far as your stock, it looks almost exactly the same to me as the 1st generation FN Supreme product I've seen on GB.and that would possibly coincide with your gun having a FN receiver.Ad for the company from 1899, for their velocipede. I've also seen some FN marked receivers on several other Post WW II excellent quality English made brand name sporters and later marked with several US Importers names like the Interarms Mark X series. SAKO supplied FN with small L46 & later L461 & medium 57 and later L579 receivers for FN's Browning Safari grade product line. FN supplied SAKO & Husqvarna both with commercial grade receivers, including some very early stuff with the milsurp styled thumb indent on the left side of the receiver to Husqvarna but stamped with the FN logo's. thoughts on the stock on your gun.Īfter WWII the surviving gun mfgr'ers in europe were starved for any source of revenue, and there were several companies like Husqvarna & FN that made components that found their way to other companies. Go look at GunBroker to see some similar styled rifles too. The proof marks are very telling, as is the shape and style of the stock. If I had the means and time I'd look seriously into collecting these small ring Mauser designs, as the workmanship is superb and there is enough variants & history to be extemely interesting to a gun looney like me.Īre there any US Importer or Distributor stamps anywhere? Tradewinds from Tacoma WA brought in some rifles that looked very similar, but they will have an Importer roll mark probably on the barrel. It's been some time since I did some research on Husqvarna's, looking to pin down a S&W labeled gun from the '50/'60's. OBTW you need to reduce the size of your pics a little too. I beleive that the rifle shown is a post WW II commercial product, and could very well be a FN action that was finished out by Husqvarna for the US Market.or possibly a early '50's 1640 action but I cannot be certain without better pics of both sides of the receiver & the trigger/floorplate group. 24HCF's "Ask the Gunwriter" board is alos another good source of info. Go look on or I ran across the Husky guru on gunboards and 24HCF and there probably is some back and forth concerning Husqvarna's somewhere in the archives. Unfortunately the very knowledgeable and generous fellow that was the accepted guru on all things in scandahoovian rifles on several 'net sites has recently passed away. Check out the toolbar to the left and close to the bottom of the list: Look at this site and see if you can find the info you are looking for.