Found a little surprise while cleaning this Chiang kai shek mauser the other night. I couldnt get clear pic of the Chinese characters but they are there.
I believe so.
Its looking to be in pretty nice shape with some of the grime coming off.
Any idea what the chinese characters say?
Any idea what the chinese characters say?
The cartouches I asked about and got this...
The middle of oval shape is Yan - proof/check/validated, sort of troop acceptance mark.
My best guess on the two characters on both side are Jin Wu - Shanxi (Province) Arm (Milita). It will be from early ChiCom era beause it is read from right to left.
As of the Roman characters, I think they're GI for the pronouced bottom stroke. A remote possibility is that it stands for Group Army One. Nationalist Army are known to use G, A, D etc to represent Group Army, Army, Division units but it usually denoted as 11D for the 11th Division for example.
The middle of oval shape is Yan - proof/check/validated, sort of troop acceptance mark.
My best guess on the two characters on both side are Jin Wu - Shanxi (Province) Arm (Milita). It will be from early ChiCom era beause it is read from right to left.
As of the Roman characters, I think they're GI for the pronouced bottom stroke. A remote possibility is that it stands for Group Army One. Nationalist Army are known to use G, A, D etc to represent Group Army, Army, Division units but it usually denoted as 11D for the 11th Division for example.
Holy crap. I didn't expect anyone to be able to answer that so quickly.
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