The SVT40 Finn Captured SA Marked Thread

My guess would be about the same as a typical refurb. Most (all?) have all mismatched parts and many tend to be a bit rough. If one were found that had even a couple of original, matching pieces it might get a lot more. My own Finn capture SVT is very rough, with no markings left on wood. I'd probably not even get refurb price for it.

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SVT-40 Tokarev 1941r Finn Capture, SA Marked

Самозарядная винтовка Токарева, образец 1940 года





 
My Finn capture SVT 40 cost me all of $250 at a small local show about 8 years ago. The seller apologized about the price because it looked so rough next to the Soviet refurbs sitting next to it. Only things remarkable about mine are a second number applied by the Finns next to the original serial on the receiver ring and a large amount of fine white beach sand packed under the buttplate. It's in shootable condition but I don't because the stock has a split behind the receiver that was repaired with a wood dowel.

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Interesting comment about Globeco and conversions reducing the supply of SA SVTs. I would agree, but disagree. The old International Firearms and other traders of the 1960s scooped whatever they could out of Europe and the Middle East. Globeco was just one of the companies involved. I've seen a couple of as-they-say unmolested SA marked SVTs in Canada. I seldom see Globeco conversions anymore. It is possible this conversation is actually about only a few hundred or low thousands of individual rifles back in the day.

I examined a 1940 SA marked SVT not long ago. Besides the evident war date and Finnish capture, this one had a two-piece Finnish birch stock. The two sticks of lumber were joined across the butt, and the finish was a murky brown pine tar and turpentine solution. It looked just different enough to be remembered.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
Interesting comment about Globeco and conversions reducing the supply of SA SVTs. I would agree, but disagree. The old International Firearms and other traders of the 1960s scooped whatever they could out of Europe and the Middle East. Globeco was just one of the companies involved. I've seen a couple of as-they-say unmolested SA marked SVTs in Canada. I seldom see Globeco conversions anymore. It is possible this conversation is actually about only a few hundred or low thousands of individual rifles back in the day.

I examined a 1940 SA marked SVT not long ago. Besides the evident war date and Finnish capture, this one had a two-piece Finnish birch stock. The two sticks of lumber were joined across the butt, and the finish was a murky brown pine tar and turpentine solution. It looked just different enough to be remembered.
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Keep in mind the Finnish only had so many SVTs. They never produced them and only captured them from Russia. A few thousand is a lot of a non-standard arm.
 
Eaglelord17 said:
Keep in mind the Finnish only had so many SVTs. They never produced them and only captured them from Russia. A few thousand is a lot of a non-standard arm.
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There are serious websites that attempt to numerate these sorts of Finnish captures, and what markings are likely for which period. I found a similar site that sorted out some of the blizzard of arms shipments to Spain during the 1930s civil war by ship, by origin, by type, by buyer. That is were so many WW1 guns ended up, including Ross rifles. You get another sense of the politics of each country by looking at their alliances.
 
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