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I have an extra tokarev pistol holster (supposedly), and there was this stamp on the inside flap that is too faint to be able to get a picture, but I can make out something to the effect of:

EAEHиHгPAд
3 MAPKCиOT"

Any ideas?

I'll try the wife's computer scanner later to see if I can get a pic to work with.

Also Thanx to Bittermansbro for having Russian in your sig line so I could copy paste some of the characters. :D
 
It probably says "Leningrad, Marx Factory " (Leningrad, zavod im. K Marksa, or literally, Leningrad, factory in the name of K(arl) Marx"

The abbreviation for factory is "z" (looking like a "3")

Mind you, that's just a guess... :)
 
Calum said:
I have an extra tokarev pistol holster (supposedly), and there was this stamp on the inside flap that is too faint to be able to get a picture, but I can make out something to the effect of:

EAEHиHгPAд
3 MAPKCиOT"

Any ideas?

I'll try the wife's computer scanner later to see if I can get a pic to work with.

Also Thanx to Bittermansbro for having Russian in your sig line so I could copy paste some of the characters. :D
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Yeah that's russian for "Made In China" :p
 
Calum said:
Also Thanx to Bittermansbro for having Russian in your sig line so I could copy paste some of the characters. :D
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Haha, no prob Calum. :D

Funny thing, can't remember who it is/was on the boards had a Russian sig and me, dying to know what it meant, eventually got it translated and it was something like "I like to screw fat chicks" or somesuch :p :D LOL. Man.....*sigh*

Anyhow..
 
Yeah, some of the charachters look off - I assume some of them were a little unclear and are not reproduced in your post exactly as on the holster,

but It appears to be (phonetically) "Lenningrad Z. Marxict" Z. is almost certainly the abbreviation for Zahvod which is factory. Or, as A-zone points out, Marx/Marxist/In honor of Marx factory in Lenningrad.
 
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1st line reads Leningrad = St. Petersburg.
2nd line reads Z(avod) Marksist = 'Marxist' Leather Factory.

Brief history of the factory:
История одного из старейших предприятий кожевенной промышленности Российской Федерации начинается с основания в 1857 году кожевенного завода на острове Голодай города Санкт-Петербурга купцом Алексеем Михайловичем Осиповым. После смерти основателя завода в 1864 году его наследником Иваном Алексеевичем Осиповым было учреждено Товарищество кожевенного производства и торговли кожевенными, холщевыми и полотняными товарами под фирмою "И.А. Осипов и К". Товарищество вырабатывало преимущественно тяжелый подошвенный товар, а также мостовьевую, юфтовую, сыромятную и замшевую кожи. После революции завод был национализирован и в 1922 году переименован в Государственный кожевенный завод "Марксист".

I am lazy to translate, so I fed it into an online translator somewhere on the web and fixed a few errors:

The history of one of the oldest enterprises of the tanning industry of the Russian Federation begins with the basis in 1857 of a skinnery on island Goloday in the city of St.-Petersburg by a merchant Alexey Mihajlovich Osipov. After death of the founder of a factory in 1864 its successor Ivan Alekseevich Osipov had founded the Tanning Company for manufacture and trade in tanned hides, canvas and linen goods called 'I.A.Osipov & Co'. The partnership manufactured mostly heavy sole leather as well as several other products. The factory has been nationalized after the revolution of 1917 and renamed as the 'State leather factory Marxist'
 
Oh jeez, I missed the end of "Marxist".:redface: The "O" should be a "C". That's pretty obvious in hindsight.

Thanks for clearing that one up. (And here my son thought maybe it was a potassium plant.:p )

Seriously, a lot of their leather products had the factory name stamped somewhere on the product, (i.e. inside a flap).

Keep a sharp eye out for the "mark of quality" (znak yakosti) There was an old joke about how you could recognize a Soviet turd. (It had a "mark of quality") :)
 
There is an old military issue Makarov holster sitting back in Russia in my mom's apartment. I feel an itch to ask her to take a picture of the stampings. Could find something interesting, maybe another factory...
 
Great info, now to see if our computer scanner can pick out any more details, I'll keep you folks posted, and post pics if I can. :)

I'm beginning to wonder if this is a Makarov holster instead of a Tokarev, while my Tokarev fits, it's tight, and the spot on the holster for the magazine is too tight to hold a Tok' mag.
 
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