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Nagant 1895 Gépéou (?)
The weapon
Russian revolver of ordinance of type NAGANT 1895 manufactured in Tula (Russia).
It is with central percussion and box frame.
The weapon is with joint sealed without gas loss gauges 7,62 of them.
The barrel and the grips were shortened subsequently and the plates out of squared wooden changed for small smooth wood plates.
This model “could” be for the use of the “Guépéou” (political police force Russian) but it is also possible that it is about a posterior transformation. What pleads in favour of this last assumption is the fact that imperial marking was not hammered as the majority of the weapons of this revolutionary age.
Marks
The weapon carries various markings or Russian punches, namely:
Russian imperial marking on the console side postpones left, inscription into Cyrillic meaning that it is about a manufacture of the Manufacture of the Pierre Tsar the Large one with TULA in 1917.
This mark would have been adopted in 1915.
Imperial eagle and figure II of Nicolas II on the face postpone right console is the punch of the controller as a chief of the manufacture of TULA.
2-4/38: on the face right console postpones, marks unknown. It could be a question of a military marking?
Marking on the cap is partially unobtrusive and thus illegible.
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