1931 dated SA marked Nagant
I picked this one up at the last Tulsa show. It is a nice, still matched, 1931 dated revolver. It has been re-finnished and the blue is no longer blue, but it is a dipped black finnish typical of Nagants captured and used by the Finns after the mid 1930s. I have see this finnish on early guns that have been Finnish property during the 1930s and 40s (not all of which were SA marked). This one has had the left side ground a bit during refinnish and the original Tula star and date is a bit thin.
(No, your eyes aren't bad, the guy putting the SA stamp on stuttered!)
Joe
I picked this one up at the last Tulsa show. It is a nice, still matched, 1931 dated revolver. It has been re-finnished and the blue is no longer blue, but it is a dipped black finnish typical of Nagants captured and used by the Finns after the mid 1930s. I have see this finnish on early guns that have been Finnish property during the 1930s and 40s (not all of which were SA marked). This one has had the left side ground a bit during refinnish and the original Tula star and date is a bit thin.
(No, your eyes aren't bad, the guy putting the SA stamp on stuttered!)
Joe