1897 Tula

krinko · Post by **krinko** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:07 pm

SA marked, Civil Guard number, original bolt, bright bore, tiger stock, pinned bands and no import mark.

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The striping of the wood isn't shown well in these photos---too bad, but I can't fix it. Anyway, here's the Tula mark---

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CG number---

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The Mystery "P"---

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Matching bolt---

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This band was still pinned when I got the rifle---had to unpin to clean off the grease/sand/seed husk mixture that was jammed into every crevice---

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A better view of the stripes---

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With a clip of the 1917 Remington rounds---

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Paid $200---mainly because of the bore and the fact that the rifle was screaming to come home with me.
-----krinko

awo425 · Post by **awo425** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:23 am

VERY nice rifle!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **Niner** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:45 am

Can't find it mentioned by itself any place. There is a P26 and P 27 meaning relined barrel, in association with an S mark meaning Salerno where is was done. There is the long word Puolustuslaitos used only for a few weeks in 1942, meaning Defense Department. There is a P in a diamond meaning Poland. There are some other dead ends.

I give up......for now.

krinko · Post by **krinko** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:46 pm

Niner,

I posted this at gunboards, too, with a direct query about the "P"...the post is going to fall off the bottom of that forum soon without a nibble on that one.

If this is a relined barrel, I can't find a seam at the muzzle and the Puolustuslaitos mark looks like this.

-----krinko

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Karl/Pa. · Post by **Karl/Pa.** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:17 am

Interesting. The only country I know of that used a P stamp was Switzerland. This was used to denote personalized weapons.

riptidenj · Post by **riptidenj** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:57 am

"P" in the Cyrillic Aphabet is "R".

krinko · Post by **krinko** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:36 am

Yes, if it's Cyrillic.

-----k.

1897 Tula

1897 Tula

Ok. You got me curious about the "P"