[zeebill]

Richard,

My apologies for the incorrect info. Since looking at Terrence Lapin's The Mosin-Nagant Rifle, 5th Edition, Revised I found this stamp that correlates with North Korean Mosins. Mr. Lapin's book is well-known to Mosin Collectors, and I trust that this is the right mark as shown on Mosin's in this thread.
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Domo Mr. Lapin has I believe now 6 printings of a book filled with at least questionable information and out right wrong at different printings. He has sold a lot of them and continues to do so and while I use one at times it should not be used as a final say reference in my opinion. As far as the stars in wood I have found them so many places on so many different rifles I just sort of look past them, maybe a fatal error but the sort of a move to avoid controversial markings and look for more well known and accepted marks. Vic's description of collecting brought a smile to my face and a thought of his description being a perfect analyzing of the colors of grey we deal with in collecting. Bill

 

[Eula520]

Domo Mr. Lapin has I believe now 6 printings of a book filled with at least questionable information and out right wrong at different printings. He has sold a lot of them and continues to do so and while I use one at times it should not be used as a final say reference in my opinion. As far as the stars in wood I have found them so many places on so many different rifles I just sort of look past them, maybe a fatal error but the sort of a move to avoid controversial markings and look for more well known and accepted marks. Vic's description of collecting brought a smile to my face and a thought of his description being a perfect analyzing of the colors of grey we deal with in collecting. Bill

+1 Lapin's book is riddled with inaccuracies, don't take it as gospel. I also concur with the previous posts about the star being a Chinese mark and not N. Korean. I've got two T53's with this mark, both recent imports. I believe it has nothing to do with N. Korea. To clarify, the star shown on the SKS'S posted by Martin is a N. Korean arsenal mark. The star seen on type 53's without a circle is probably a Chinese arsenal mark.

 

[Tom-M]

I am convinced the Star in Circle is North Korean. I have seen Stars (without circle used by a number of countries).

Arsenal marks on North Korean AK magazines. Several versions exist of the marking.

 

[BLACKTALON]

sorry to bump a zombie thread but I was just informed today what I actually own. only took me two years of having it. I al told this is a SHI trails T-53 mosin.

 

[RusskieSniper]

I've looked at a couple papered Korea bringback 91/30s and none of the marks appeared out of the ordinary. I have one that was sold to me as a sportered Korea bringback a couple years ago, but I was told it was SCW on here and I am more inclined to believe that.

 

[badash5946]

I've owned a couple of documented KW bringback Mosins. I've seen a few more, and while this is only a extremely small sample, none of the these had any additional stampings or marks to denote North Korean origin.

 

[SfcRet]

I've looked at a couple papered Korea bringback 91/30s and none of the marks appeared out of the ordinary.

I've owned a couple of documented KW bringback Mosins. I've seen a few more, and while this is only a extremely small sample, none of the these had any additional stampings or marks to denote North Korean origin.

nor would any rifles, pistols etc.... will have NK stampings on them during the Korean war.

NK didn't have large industrial infrastructure to make them. NK received every single bit of military hardware from ammunition, pistols, rifles, sub-guns, tanks, trucks etc.... all the way up to aircraft by the train loads from the soviet union through Chinese.


WW2 ended just 5 years before, the soviet union was drowning in a vast and tremendous amount of military hardware, rifles, ammo, tanks etc... that they supplied NK with as well as china. even that didn't put a dent in what they still had in the soviet union, because they went on to arm other counties with military hardware.

it wasn't until much,later after the armistice that NK started to develop their own factories with the help of the soviet union and china to produce their own military equipment. but they still depended on china and the soviet union to supply them military equipment they couldn't produce in quantity.

even today china still supplies them to a certain extent with military equipment

if someone was offering me a M-N captured in the Korean war with NK stamping on it, I would laugh at him and walk away.