НП and USSR marked 1937 Tula mosin

metalman3006 · Jan 23, 2019

Posted this of at GB but I wanted to post here as well.

Here is the Tula 1937 НП and USSR marked mosin I picked up. It was not advertised as such. It has varnish on it and I think a Spanish made hand guard. There doesn't seem to be many of these reported and no one knows what the НП means for sure.

Bertfish · Jan 23, 2019

Whatever it means still a nice looking Mosin

LGood48 · Jan 23, 2019

The Russian letters stand for N P. No idea what they stand for. Possibly inspector marks. :shrug:

metalman3006 · Jan 23, 2019

CП and CH marked rifles are usually sniper or ex-sniper rifles.

buellsfurn · Jan 23, 2019

LGoodwin said:
The Russian letters stand for N P. No idea what they stand for. Possibly inspector marks.

beat me to it .Thats all I got other than like it

metalman3006 · Jan 23, 2019

https://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?1065027-HN-marked-mosins

CodeWarrior1241 · Jan 23, 2019

Russian forum claims it's inspector/proof marks.

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mawkie · Jan 24, 2019

I'm looking at the USSR mark on the sight and figure it's got to be an early Spanish import. You usually see the USSR mark on the receiver, don't think I've ever seen it on the sight. These are getting harder to find, don't SCW Mosins as much as I used to. Good find! The НП mark info I'll leave to the MN experts to conjecture over. Suffice to say it's uncommon for sure.

CodeWarrior1241 · Jan 24, 2019

When did they start marking _anything_ on a Mosin with Latin letters? Taking about the faded "USSR' stamp. Or is that an import mark? Or did Spaniards do this?

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mawkie · Jan 25, 2019

CodeWarrior1241 said:
When did they start marking _anything_ on a Mosin with Latin letters? Taking about the faded "USSR' stamp. Or is that an import mark? Or did Spaniards do this?

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Import mark. Pre 68 imports you had to mark the country of manuf. I've seen SMLE's marked "England" for example.
Most 91/30 Spanish imports were marked "Made in USSR". Though there are some marked URRS

. I'll bet if you squinted your eyes and looked real hard you'd see the "Made In" preceding the more visible "USSR" on Metalman3006's example. Just very lightly struck.

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