AVT-40 Stock dated 1945! ###Y!!!!

[DJdeadlyDALEK]

This just arrived today from Quebec (thanks, Jacques!). I bought her sight unseen. Jacques told me he had a 1945 dated stock on a 1941 Tula and he said it was pristine and he was not kidding! I wish I had a better camera because this stock looks even ###ier in person!








But, of course, the rest of her is a 1941 Tula:



She is by far the ###iest SVT-40 I have in my collection now and...
...I consider this to be half a '45

 

[DJdeadlyDALEK]

The streak you see above the "7257" in the second pic is just smeared cosmo, not a ding or scratch

Gonna take some more close ups now

 

[DJdeadlyDALEK]

Max loves it, too!


And he helped his mother and I get this bore shot:

 

[kennymo]

Good ol weimajaques, I sent a moneyorder off this week too. He's always pissing off my wife. Markings look nice.

 

[DJdeadlyDALEK]

Did you buy one of his 1944 SVT's?

 

[fredqc]

I tought they stopped doing AVT in 1943

 

[DJdeadlyDALEK]

I'm not sure what year they discontinued the AVT but it was either '43 or '44 - we know when they did that they had a ton of extra stocks left over. I'm thinking they might've all had the A stamped in them first and then the date stamped into them later when they were actually assembled onto an SVT-40. I have another AVT stock that's stamped with the date 1944 and the Tula star and arrow above it, so that theory makes sense to me but if anyone else would like to chime in....?