Husqvarna M87 Nagant

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Hi, I found a Husqvarna m87 nagant in 7.5 swedish at a really reasonable price, but he's registered. I would like to know from what year they were manufactured, and if there's a way to class it like antique (if it's an antique, of course)

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The real question here is the year of manufacture. The 7.5 mm is not on the list of calibres that need registration. You would need to contact the firearms folks with the RCMP with the details, including serial number, but it is likely this does not require a licence. I have one myself and have an RCMP letter indicating antique status.
 
Need to know the serial # to determine if it is considered antique or not.
If it is antique, it should be able to be de-registered.
 
drslav said:
only about 350 made in 1897. as far as i know,. as said best to contact rcmp techs
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350 is false information, I think this story got started because one story is there were 350 sent to Denmark in the first year of manufacture, one I have is 6xx confirmed antique with letter, as Pete says about 1,700 and under probabley considered antique, As of July 2012 ser, 1500 and under were verified antique. due to inspector marks. "FACT". As said by drslav, best to contact RCMP---- but who you contact is CFC verifiers and that is who you ask to speak to. this e-mail may work
verifiers.network@rcmp-grc.gc.ca <verifiers.network@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> send pictures have the serial number and inspector marks which will be HR PB or PTB the L ###x numbers on right side are the unit or lanstormen numbers and have no bearing on date of manufacture. Some good advice--- best not to tell the verifiers the way it is, best to ask nicely. I posted this link recently on another 1887 post , anyways there is a lot of info on this link on 1887 and a lot of info in general on the Gun Boards forums. http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?744-Handloading-for-the-m-1887-Nagant
 
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My information provided was from a manufacturers source I found and thought to be correct. Like mentioned before in many threads this isn't always to be taken exactly cause provider may be wrong and as cfc is the only one place who will determine what the classification is. If the number is higher better for us. Sometimes i like being wrong. Thank you BSA. Good luck OP.
 
If anyone searches for this information later - received a response from the lab that only the first 350 are considered antique at the time of this post.

If anyone ever has proof that higher numbers were proofmarked/shipped/delivered earlier, I'd appreciate you sharing.
 
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I do believe that is correct, these 1880's ~7.5 caliber revolvers are all very nice but seldom antique. If you haven't seen it yet I found production/delivery quantities online:

Year Number Recipient
1897 350 pcs. To Norway 2/16/1898
1898 5400 pcs.
1899 3252 pcs.
1900 690 pcs.
1901 238 pcs.
1901 115 pcs. No 12850-12964 to Norway
1902 377 pcs.
1903 3135 pcs.
1904 144 pcs.
1905 383 pcs.
Sum: 14084 pcs

Found here: http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/artiklar/swedishpistols/m87/rev87.htm their specific sources are all cited on this page as well.
 
^ Yeah, that's the info the RCMP is going by (because it serves them). Mr Thell did us no favours there... (I understand that info is from his book and things got lost "in translation" - he probably never even looked at which serials were delivered when.) I've been talking with some folks in Sweden and their understanding is that the 5400 contract was _completed_ in 1898 and that the 350 that went to Norway were not necessarily the first 350 examples, but archive searches are not possible for now because of COVID.

I own a two digit serial that never went to Norway from what I can see and another in the early 10xx. I may get to the bottom of this one day :)
 
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