1918 Remington Armory w/ Chinese/Japanese heritage
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 12:13 pm
Variant: Mosin Nagant M91
Manufacture: Remington Armory
Year: 1918
Serial: Varied -
Story: I picked this rifle up from a local gun show. I wasn't looking for anything in particular but I happened upon this at a smaller private stand. I saw that it was a Remington Armory and that it was priced really well. It was missing the top handguard but that could be replaced. I also noticed what looked to be Japanese writing on the stock. I didn't attach to much significance to it however. I guess I was wrong
Significance: Given the 1918 manufacture it would most likely have accompanied the American Expeditionary Forces who were sent to Vladivostok, Siberia as part of the U.S. intervention into the Russian Civil War. It shows Russian markings including Izhevsk markings on the bolt, magazine, and the barrel bands. It also has a Tula hammer on the firing pin. Being as we don't know it may have been one of a 50,000 rifle shipment to the Czhech Leigon and afterwards captured by the Chinese and or Japanese who would have had left over mosin parts from the boxer rebellion etc.
Translation has been difficult due to the fading of the paint from years of use and missing strokes. I have spoken with several different people on this issue and two main ideals have come forth.
1. Some kind of slogan to the effect that "gun and ammo shall be with us even when we're engaging in production". -Firearms (gunboards)
2. These are Chinese characters (kanji), but most likely written by Japanese. You can tell by the way the words are used. Japanese use the same characters as Chinese but they have a different meaning and have different pronunciations than Chinese writing.
It says something like (From top right go down): XXX(can not make out due to missing strokes) During production bullet XXX(can not make out)
Line on left from top: (Way to vague to make out the top two words) bullet impact(too vague again) -yiping (RMNF)
This means that this rifle spent time with the Chinese and/or Japanese if the linguistic style is Japanese. This may have been from large groups of "White Russians" who fled into China shortly before or after the rise of the Communist Russian party. After which these "White Russians" would have hired their selves and equipment out to Chinese Lords. Also in the Late 20s to early 30s Stalins regime shipped many Mosin Nagants to China in order to "Contain Japanese Incursion" This is definitely a unique piece with a neat history. It is impossible, however, to know which way this rifle came to its current condition
A special thanks to Martin08 for all of the help
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Manufacture: Remington Armory
Year: 1918
Serial: Varied -
Story: I picked this rifle up from a local gun show. I wasn't looking for anything in particular but I happened upon this at a smaller private stand. I saw that it was a Remington Armory and that it was priced really well. It was missing the top handguard but that could be replaced. I also noticed what looked to be Japanese writing on the stock. I didn't attach to much significance to it however. I guess I was wrong
Significance: Given the 1918 manufacture it would most likely have accompanied the American Expeditionary Forces who were sent to Vladivostok, Siberia as part of the U.S. intervention into the Russian Civil War. It shows Russian markings including Izhevsk markings on the bolt, magazine, and the barrel bands. It also has a Tula hammer on the firing pin. Being as we don't know it may have been one of a 50,000 rifle shipment to the Czhech Leigon and afterwards captured by the Chinese and or Japanese who would have had left over mosin parts from the boxer rebellion etc.
Translation has been difficult due to the fading of the paint from years of use and missing strokes. I have spoken with several different people on this issue and two main ideals have come forth.
1. Some kind of slogan to the effect that "gun and ammo shall be with us even when we're engaging in production". -Firearms (gunboards)
2. These are Chinese characters (kanji), but most likely written by Japanese. You can tell by the way the words are used. Japanese use the same characters as Chinese but they have a different meaning and have different pronunciations than Chinese writing.
It says something like (From top right go down): XXX(can not make out due to missing strokes) During production bullet XXX(can not make out)
Line on left from top: (Way to vague to make out the top two words) bullet impact(too vague again) -yiping (RMNF)
This means that this rifle spent time with the Chinese and/or Japanese if the linguistic style is Japanese. This may have been from large groups of "White Russians" who fled into China shortly before or after the rise of the Communist Russian party. After which these "White Russians" would have hired their selves and equipment out to Chinese Lords. Also in the Late 20s to early 30s Stalins regime shipped many Mosin Nagants to China in order to "Contain Japanese Incursion" This is definitely a unique piece with a neat history. It is impossible, however, to know which way this rifle came to its current condition
A special thanks to Martin08 for all of the help
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