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<blockquote data-quote="coolhandluke" data-source="post: 2317473" data-attributes="member: 13284"><p>After a fair amount of searching I was able to find a couple examples of an Austrian double headed eagle crest, both of which had AZF stampings. The photo below shows your M24's crest in the upper left, a Russian PK crest in the upper right, and the Austrian crest at the bottom. A close up photo of your crest would definitely help.</p><p></p><p>The crest still looks Russian to me with a partially struck or worn cyrillic P. A Russian crest would have been scrubbed before applying a new Austrian crest so there should be evidence of metal being removed if that is the case. If the crest is in fact Austrian, the receiver would have been recycled from an M91 captured by the Austro-Hungarian army (or received by Austria from Germans as a captured weapon) during conflict with Russia around 1915. Either way, it doesn't appear that there are any signs that the rifle spent any time in Austria after assembly by the Finns.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s181.photobucket.com/user/mach-won/media/Crests_zps3da46d48.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i181.photobucket.com_albums_x97_mach_won_Crests_zps3da46d48.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coolhandluke, post: 2317473, member: 13284"] After a fair amount of searching I was able to find a couple examples of an Austrian double headed eagle crest, both of which had AZF stampings. The photo below shows your M24's crest in the upper left, a Russian PK crest in the upper right, and the Austrian crest at the bottom. A close up photo of your crest would definitely help. The crest still looks Russian to me with a partially struck or worn cyrillic P. A Russian crest would have been scrubbed before applying a new Austrian crest so there should be evidence of metal being removed if that is the case. If the crest is in fact Austrian, the receiver would have been recycled from an M91 captured by the Austro-Hungarian army (or received by Austria from Germans as a captured weapon) during conflict with Russia around 1915. Either way, it doesn't appear that there are any signs that the rifle spent any time in Austria after assembly by the Finns. [URL=http://s181.photobucket.com/user/mach-won/media/Crests_zps3da46d48.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i181.photobucket.com_albums_x97_mach_won_Crests_zps3da46d48.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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