Model 1941 Johnson semi-automatic rifle manufactured circa 1941 by the Cranston Arms Co. The rifle has the distinctive detachable 22 inch barrel, receiver with ventilated barrel shroud and ten-round rotary magazine. The receiver has a tangent style rear sight graduated in meters. The two-piece walnut stock is oil finished and has a checkered buttplate. The barrel, receiver, magazine, trigger guard and buttplate have a gray-green parkerized finish. The bolt is bright. The serial number is stamped on the right side of the receiver above the ejection port. The bolt is numbered "B8937" (numbered components on Johnson rifles did not match). The face of the barrel collar is stamped with the caliber ".30 06" above the barrel and "41" below it. The top of the receiver is roll-stamped: "CAL. 30-06 SEMI. AUTO./"JOHNSON AUTOMATICS"/MODEL OF 1941/MADE IN PROVIDENCE, R.I., U.S.A." in four lines above the serial number. The patent markings are stamped in five lines between the factory legend and the rear sight. "CRANSTON/ARMS /CO." is stamped in an inverted triangle on the right rear of the receiver. A small five-pointed star used by Dutch inspectors is stamped above the Cranston marking. In August 1940, the Netherlands Purchasing Commission ordered 10,200 Johnson Automatic rifles to arm colonial troops in the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch colonies in Asia were invaded by the Japanese in December 1941 and captured before most of the Johnson Model 1941 rifles could be delivered. The U.S. Marine Corps tested the Johnson rifles in 1941. Early in 1942, the Marines obtained a limited number of the Dutch Model 1941 rifles which were subsequently issued to the 1st Parachute Battalion. The "Para-Marines" used small numbers of the Model 1941 rifles in combat in the Solomon Islands in 1942 and 1943. Most of the Dutch Model 1941 rifles remained un-issued and were sold as surplus in the 1950s and 1960s. Includes a Johnson spring clip bayonet with a leather sheath.

Very fine with 90% plus dark gray/green parkerized finish. The barrel is a different shade of parkerizing (possibly replaced) with areas of light edge and high point wear, clear markings and scattered small nicks and dings. The wood is very fine as lightly sanded and oiled with scattered moderate indentations, surface scratches and some very small hairline cracks at the butt. Mechanically excellent.