old German .22 help

[BlkHawk73]

Hoping someone can help me help someone. He's got an old, suppodely 1920's, German single shot bolt action .22 caliber rifle. It's marked atop the bbl "Pluss-Stahk Krupp-Essen" and then atop the reciever is Mod. 315 BSW Suhl. the plastic black butplate is also marked BSW, all in old German style lettering. The bolt handle is flat and rather oblong shaped. the rearward part of the bolt is pulled back to cock the action and that part is flat on top, giving an almost octagon appearance to it.
The wooden stock has a small raised comb and checkering on the roundbottomed grip. Rather nice actually.

 

[SDC]

"BSW" is "Berlin Suhler Waffen", and it's what Simson & Co. became after Simson was forced out of the business for being Jewish. This rifle would've been made sometime between 1938 (when the Nazis took over the company) and 1940 (when BSW was rolled into the Gustloff-Werke consortium, and civilian/sporting arms became secondary anyway).

 

[Sunray]

"...Krupp-Essen..." Krupp is a huge steel maker in Essen, Germany. It's in the Ruhr area. They made the big guns for the Bismarck and all the other German W.W. II German ships. Plus the huge railroad guns. 'Big Bertha' was named for Herr Gustav Krupp's wife.
"...Stahk..." That'd be 'Stahl'. German for 'steel'. So it means the barrel was made from Krupp steel.
Nice piece of wood for a single shot .22. Craftsmanship was everything to German gun makers.

 

[SDC]

Forgot to add: "Fluss-Stahl" means "flowing steel", or steel that was manufactured with the Bessemer process (as opposed to cast or wrought steel); this was a big selling point back when SOME guns were pretty questionable as to whether or not they'd hold together.

 

[BlkHawk73]

Thanx! Quite interesting. Any idea as to any potential value to such? I'm guessing .22lr would I be likely correct?

 

[SDC]

Certainly a 22 LR, but value is a funny thing, since it depends on the market (both someone WANTING to buy it, and what people have paid for similar examples in the past). If a given example is uncommon enough that not many have been bought and sold, the "value" is really nothing more than a guess, and that will change depending on who wants to buy it.