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Nice looking rifle and welcome to the forums.
Hope you got the rifle without a story to go with it.
I sorta have doubts though that Mauser (the factory that is) would have lined out parts numbers and then re-numbered them to match.
If that rifle had ended up back at their factory it would have been for re-build work, not for re-numbering with parts from another rifle.
(It is pretty rare to have a rifle get damaged and to have only the barreled action survive as on the '4593' gun.
And the stock looks awful nice on the on the '1809' rifle but missing the barreled action?)
We'll never know the story on that.
I'm not saying it could not have happened, just that I've never seen or even read on such a practice at Mauser.
Individual spare parts on hand at the factory, as well as spare parts ordered by and sent to the various State Arsenals
were shipped and stored without a number pending their being fitted (at the Arsenal or Armory level) to a repaired rifle.
Without photos to see the number fonts, its anybody's guess.
Been proved wrong before, always willing to learn though, and looking forward to more photos.
JT
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