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When a war era Izhevsk left the factory was it SOP to include the serial prefix on the serials stamped on bolts, butt plates and magazine plates/covers.

I have seen many with just the serial and no cyrillic letter prefixes . Can I assume field replacement or rebuild?

both my 43 & 44 s/n have full S/N with prefixes, and the 43 is an original numbers matching rifle.

mjmd11 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 1:15 pm ...
I have seen many with just the serial and no cyrillic letter prefixes . Can I assume field replacement or rebuild?

Afterwar arsenal rebuild.

What is the mark just above the Izhevsk triangle?

SA1911a1 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 11, 2020 4:12 pm What is the mark just above the Izhevsk triangle?

It's a Kossuth Crest, which early on people thought had some connection to the Hungarian revolution, but is now believed to be a pre revolution Hungarian Army marking. Last time I checked there where a handful of T-33's and 3 PU snipers in the US with this mark. Over in Europe there are a few more but it is thought that the marking was removed post 56 revolution since the Kossuth Crest was the symbol of the revolution.


https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/hu_1956.html

Cool.

The reason I asked. I have a no import marked rifle with mixed parts (some with prefix others not) with no rebuild stamp.