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CZ Factory marking found on Czech reworked guns
Arsenal #7 refurbishment square - Riga, Latvia
C13 'Tombstone' - Arsenal #2 refurbishment acceptance - Kiev
Triangle 25 Central Artillery Armament Base - Omsk, Russia
Arsenal #1 refurbishment marking - Balakleya
Indicates shooting adjustment made post-refurbishment
Indicates Spanish Civil War use
Izhevsk ex PEM sniper - welded holes in receiver
Hungarian inspector mark
Warsaw Pact country code for Hungary
Part produced by Hungary
Type 53
Hungarian crest - 1950s
ABV #38 Moscow Military District - Pavlovska Sloboda
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Chinese - "Platoon who is led by Xi"
'K' in circle - accuracy proof
Black powder proof mark
1944 Izhevsk receiver tang
'C' in circle indicates sniper grade barrel - Izhevsk factory
Sako extractor marking
'C H' indicates sniper grade barrel on Tula 91/30 rifles (1942 - 1944)
'SA' in box - Finnish army property (Suomen Armeija)
Izhevsk factory sniper scope serial number
WW2 German capture marking - Feldluftpark Riga
Finnish Civil Guard cartouche
Sako pressure test - 3,600 BAR (52,214 psi)
Finnish 'D' - chamber adjusted for the D166 projectile
Izhevsk factory military representative final acceptance marking - 1941
M39 Sako stock cartouche
Finnish '9' depot marking
M39 stock cartouche
Asevarikko (Depot) 3 - Kuopio, Finland
Bulgarian pinecone - found on M91 stocks
Tikkakoski factory marking (Post 1936)
Pre WW2 Refurbishment - Arsenal #21 in Novocherkassk
Finnish civil guard marking
Refurbishment marking found on Polish 91/98/26 - completed in August of 1934
1933 Tula receiver tang
PE scope mount Tula factory assembly number (1932 - late 1933)
VKT (Valmet) factory logo
Sig M28 Commercial Sales Contract
Japanese Remington training rifle - 270
Finnish Civil Guard district number
'F' - indicates chambering for 7.62x53r on Finnish M27 rifles
Sako factory logo
Meiji University marking on Remington rifle
Japanese markings on Remington training rifle
Finnish Civil guard district number (SS prefix means transferred from army to Civil Guard in the mid 1930s)
Tula star factory marking on stock
Tula factory inspector marking - late 1920s
Tula factory logo (post 1928)
Izhevsk arrow - factory logo (post 1928)
Belgian 8mm Mauser 'Blindee' conversion - translates 'Full Metal Jacket'
Liege proof markings on 8mm Mauser 'Blindee' conversion
Izhevsk factory logo (post 1928)
Finnish AV1 Depot
Finnish inspector marking of Kosti Eakola
Finnish Civil Guard acceptance marking
'SYT' - M28 stock created from M91 stock
Finnish factory high pressure test firing performed by Eriksson
Tula factory logo (pre 1928)
Tula hammer (1892 - 1928)
Finnish Mosin with sleeved barrel. 'P' stands for 'Putkitettu' which means 'sleeved'
Serial number found on the buttplate of Finnish M28 rifles
Production year found on the bottom of SIG M28 barrels
Tikkakoski factory marking (Pre 1936)
Izhevsk factory logo (pre 1928)
Polish Armory - Lviv, Ukraine (Lwow)
Polish Eagle - marked on rifles re-worked by Poland
Finnish M24 barrel produced by Bohler
Finnish Christmas tree - Approved Sako ammunition only
Finnish civil guard shield
Finnish M24 barrel made by SIG
Tula hammer on stock - early 1920s
Czecho-Slovak Province
Unknown Balkan II sight base marking
St. Petersburg Cavalry Carbine unit marking
Serbian serial number marked on stock
Serbian 'C'
Izhevsk factory hammer and sickle on receiver (1919 - 1928)
Tula Hammer on Receiver (1919 - 1925)
Tula Weapons Factory - 1919 Tula Hammer
Remington factory crest (1916 - 1918)
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Sestroretsk Weapons Factory (1893 - 1918)
Westinghouse 'M' - Russian inspector mark
Westinghouse US government inspector marking
Westinghouse US government acceptance marking
Remington 'R'
Westinghouse 'M'
Westinghouse 'E'
Tula factory crest (WW1)
Westinghouse 'X'
Unknown marking on Austro-Hungarian stock
English order - Westinghouse marking
Westinghouse 'W'
Westinghouse 'H'
Westinghouse 'E'
Tula imperial eagle - WW1
Austrian Stock Marking
Adapted to the M93 Austrian 8x50r cartridge
WW1 German proof mark
OEWG Steyr
WW1 German property
New barrel installed - Izhevsk during WW1
Artillerie Zeugs Fabrik (AZF) - Austro-Hungarian arsenal in Vienna
Indicates WW1 Austrian issue
Johann Springer's Erben - Austrian gunmaker for the imperial court
Reissued by Austro-Hungarian Empire
E.A.IX - Austro-Hungarian production marking
Mosin converted to the M93 Austrian 8x50r cartridge
WW1 German capture marking
Artillerie Depot Graudenz (Grudziadz, Poland)
German Crown over 'W'
Izhevsk cavalry marked rear sight - used on Dragoon and Cossack rifles
WW1 Serbian contract
Cossack rifle
Izhevsk factory crest (pre WW1)
1913 Izhevsk receiver tang
1905 Tula receiver tang
Japanese army property markings - Russo-Japanese War
1901 Sestroretsk receiver tang
Early cocking piece with serial number
1898 Izhevsk receiver tang
1897 Tula receiver tang
Tula stock produced in 1896 - Found behind buttplate
1895 Tula receiver tang
1895 Chatellerault receiver tang
1895 Chatellerault receiver tang - serial N474575
Sestroretsk factory crest (1895)
1895 Chatellerault receiver crest - serial N474575
Chatellerault 'C' in a circle (1894 - 1895)
Chatellerault 'L' in shield
Chatellerault 'J H' - steel supplied by Jean Hennemane
Chatellerault 'V' - found on ejector
Chatellerault 'L'
'8' found on Chatellerault stock end cap
Chatellerault Star over 'C'
Chatellerault 'R' found on buttplate
1894 Chatellerault receiver tang (Unknown serial number)
Chatellerault 'H'
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Chatellerault 'B' on stock end cap
Chatellerault star over 'P' - found on the bottom of Chatellerault receivers
Chatellerault 'M' - steel supplied by Marrel Frères
Chatellerault 'S' - found on ejector
Chatellerault 'D' in circle
Chatellerault 'R' in a shield
Cartouche of M91 stock made by Chatellerault in 1894
Chatellerault 'C' in circle
Chatellerault 'C'
1894 Chatellerault receiver tang - serial N324825
'E' inspector marking found on stock produced by Chatellerault in 1894
Chatellerault 'C' in shield
Chatellerault Weapons Factory
Chatellerault factory serial number
Tula 'M' factory inspector mark (1893)
Russian 'Arshin' sight graduations on the right side of the sight base (1892 - late 1893)
Checkering found on the floorplate of magazines produced at Chatellerault from 1892-1893
Checkering found on the floorplate of magazines produced at the Tula factory from 1891-1893
Sestroretsk factory logo (1893 - 1918)
"Épreuve de Liège" (ELG) - Liege Proof House, Belgium
M91 stock produced by Tula in 1891. Found on back of stock behind buttplate
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