What's a swastika doing on an SVT-40?
- Thread starter louthepou
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- Location
- Nova Scotia
Someone bought a punch kit and trying to pawn SVT40 as rare maybe?
That's my initial thought - but why not pick a waffen stamp in that case?
- Location
- West Quebec
Would not doubt it with some of the stuff guys do..
lowridersvt
CGN Regular
- Location
- Niagara Falls ont
Looks like a proper stamp for a captured and reissued svt40 allot were in service with German troops at the end of the war
- Location
- Nova Scotia
There is a couple threads on google.
*** forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?278625-SVT-40-Real-Fake-or-Fantasy-Nazi-Markings
Here is a 1940 that someone did. Note someone whitening it as well.
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I hadn't noticed the eagle until you posted that pic, okayshooter - thanks!
There's little doubt that this is a phony stamp. I wonder when that happened; likely quite some time ago. This is a rifle that came in the batch of recent imports, some two ot three years ago I think?
There's little doubt that this is a phony stamp. I wonder when that happened; likely quite some time ago. This is a rifle that came in the batch of recent imports, some two ot three years ago I think?
- Location
- Leduc County, Alberta
The Germans did not mark their captured weapons in such a way. At most, it would have a Depot stamp on the bottom wrist of the wood stock, not the metal (ie: Kru1) Most of the SVT40s captured by the German forces were simply pressed directly into service.
BUT.... those funky ReichsAdlers that are stamped on a few of the SVTs that are in Canada are odd, as they came out of the crate that way. Know of a couple that came directly out of a crate from a dealer that way, and quite certain the dealer didn't do it, as they were normal price.... but then that would leave the only other option of it being done during refurb or in Ukraine where they were stored, but by whom and why? As they didn't have a premium price when they were initially sold, that seems to rule out fakery for monetary gain, but still...
John from Marstar sold a few M44 Mosins with these exact same ReichsAdlers and I believe they came out of Yugoslavia, and John swears that he found them in the warehouse that way, and didn't pay any premium either I believe.
Since the fake Nazi stamps have been around since WW2 ended, my guess is some bored and/or drunk factory workers having some fun???
BUT.... those funky ReichsAdlers that are stamped on a few of the SVTs that are in Canada are odd, as they came out of the crate that way. Know of a couple that came directly out of a crate from a dealer that way, and quite certain the dealer didn't do it, as they were normal price.... but then that would leave the only other option of it being done during refurb or in Ukraine where they were stored, but by whom and why? As they didn't have a premium price when they were initially sold, that seems to rule out fakery for monetary gain, but still...
John from Marstar sold a few M44 Mosins with these exact same ReichsAdlers and I believe they came out of Yugoslavia, and John swears that he found them in the warehouse that way, and didn't pay any premium either I believe.
Since the fake Nazi stamps have been around since WW2 ended, my guess is some bored and/or drunk factory workers having some fun???
