I would also like some advice on trying to clean this up without damaging the metal. I would like to just restore it some for wife.
Thanks again!

 

bsshog40: Sir; I did AI search. 😜. 25614 =‘s 1961.

I tried cut and paste. AI DIDNT COOPERATE 🍱

 

Awesome! Thank you very much!
The only thing I was getting is they were marked by a 2 letter code. So would this be a pre-american model?

 

My Dad gave that exact model to my ex-wife! She still has the thing and actually had an occasion to whip it out in Virginia Beach a while back. He gave it to her because she could keep all of her shots on a paper plate at 25 yards.

 

Wow, it's definitely been a minute or two since one of these has popped up on the board 🤓 . As far as getting it cleaned up I would recommend using some good ol' Hoppes #9 on it
Followed by a lil' Rem oil, both of which you can get at your local Wally fart store 😋 . Not trying to sound like a Debbie Downer but Rhome & Ghimby are very well known for all the wrong reasons and everyone that friends have had and that I've seen were prone to catastrophic failures because quality control or lack therefore of left a lot to be desired 🤕 .

Luckily this looks to be in surprisingly good condition and if it were me I would clean it up real nice and then I would make a nice velvet lined white pine display box for it with a clear glass window in it and hang it on the wall with a little brass name plate for Pawpa on it 😇 ..

 

Ya, I don't plan on shooting this. Lol I have read up on this a little. Just gonna clean it up and make it look nice for the wife to keep.
Btw, is this a regular german made? I notice the proof marks. Just don't know if the american versions were also german proof marked.

 

I have one of these, used to belong to one of my great uncles. That, and a US Revolver, and an old 50's Beretta .22 auto.

 

I wouldn't use Hoppe's and Rem Oil to clean it up. I recommend Superzilla to get the worst of the gunk out of it, especially in the cylinder and the forcing cone; wipe it down thoroughly; and then follow up with Gunzilla for the CLP portion of the cleaning process. Top Duck's products will get dirt and gunk out of a firearm you would swear was clean enough to be passed by a USMC drill instructor. They also are, in the words of a Marine platoon sergeant in Iraq told me by a friend of mine, the only products he has ever found that will get a Stoner-actioned firearm to perform the way Colt claimed the M-16 is supposed to perform -- and which never can be relied on when the chips are down. Can't think of a better product endorsement than that!

 

My first Navy Marksmanship coach had a secret. So we were checking out the beaters from Parris Island armory to shoot intramurals on the base. Everyone did. Anyhow, the armory guys were real bastards about the cleanliness of the guns. Coach Bush snuck us off to an out of the way place and whipped out a can of oven cleaner. We only had to attempt to turn the rifles in twice before they were accepted (they never took them the first time- I think they thought it was funny to waste an extra 25 minutes of our already long day.)

 

Well after shooting it with some gun blaster and some rubbing and buffing, brushing out the barrel and cylinder, it didn't turn out too bad. Used a little bleach white for grips, stuff I use for the whitewalls on my m/c tires, they turned out good also.

 

THEY ARE GERMAN MADE GUNS. I DO NOT THINK THEY COST MUCH NEW. NOT BAD SHOOTERS THOUGH. ON PAR WITH H AND R AND IVERJOHNSON AND FEG.