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Yeah, one of those was this one:...I've seen two non-matching, ground mum carbines sell for $250 in the last week on gunbroker.
I've wanted a T38 Carbine for years. I couldn't afford a matching / mummed example, though, so this "shooter grade" will work for me as a first for the collection. Perhaps I'll upgrade at some point in the future.
The bore cleaned up quite nicely and Murphy's Oil Soap removed quite a bit of dirt. One thing does puzzle me, though, in that it all matches to the serial or assembly number, except for the bolt body, firing pin and safety (which match each other), but the extractor matches the assembly number. Maybe somebody in the past tried to find matching number parts and could only find the extractor. In any case, the mum is 90% gone so I don't think it's worth investing lots of money to find the right bolt part numbers.
I do have one question, though: With Koishikawa carbine production ending at around 212K in 1935, would it be safe to assume that this one was made around 1934?