The markings mean that the rifle is a refurbed 1932 Tula. Could be an ex-dragoon, or could have been a 91/30 from the get-go. You can determine more on that by looking at the base of the rear sight.
Dragoons were the same length as 91/30s, so once they are refurbed to the later standard, if it's a rifle made in the years when both dragoons and 91/30s were being produced, there's not a whole lot of ways to tell in which configuration it was originally built. Your rifle was made at Tula in 1932, and it's generally believed that they produced both types that year.
About the only way to tell in that case is that an ex-dragoon will have a gap between the sight base and the barrel at the rear (dragoons were an earlier variant and used a different sight, and when a 91/30 sight base was fitted at refurb it left a gap).
I cant get the picture to upload but on the top buttons to the site where you drop down the gauge there is a star on one side and an arrow or triangle on the other button is an ex draggoon the same size as a 91/30?
I do not see any seperation per the thread old relic put me on to so id say its a 91/30. Also I have a hex receiver I don't know if draggoons had that or not.
I do not see any seperation per the thread old relic put me on to so id say its a 91/30. Also I have a hex receiver I don't know if draggoons had that or not.
Looks similar to the Ludw. Loewe mark of the Star of David with an L inside. Loewe was Jewish as far as I know and would have used that symbol until around 1936 when the company changed name.
Maybe wrong but that's my take on it.
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