SOLD - Scarce Remington Mosin-Nagant 1891 - U.S. Marked

Description

2/15/22 - This is a scarce Remington Armory Mosin-Nagant M1891 pattern rifle from 1917. During World War I, Russia could not keep up with the military demand for rifles, so they order over a million M1891 Mosin-Nagants from Remington Armory with matching bayonets. Remington had produced just under eight hundred and fifty thousand guns between 1915 and 1917 with only a little more than one hundred and thirty thousand having reached Russia by January of that year and of the seven hundred seventy thousand guns Westinghouse made, a quarter-million of those had made it to its destination by the time the Tsar’s government was overthrown the next month. A period of chaos broke out and by the time the Bolsheviks took charge, they defaulted on their contract to Remington and Westinghouse, claiming the guns were substandard, which was hardly the case. The U.S. Government then stepped in and bought the remaining inventory, and this example bears the original (but faint) flaming bomb and U.S. marking on the stock. In 1918, the U.S. Army designated the M1891s as the Russian Three-Line Rifle and they were marked with that bomb and eagle insignia. This particular example is original and has matching receiver, magazine, and buttplate. The bolt is correct for this model but is a mismatched example. Nice blued finish throughout, with a little freckling and oxidation along the top of the receiver. Stock is in good shape but was duffel cut many years ago, though the rear band holds it confidently in place. Fairly crisp Russian cartouche is still visible on the right side with the Romanof Eagle present. Bore has strong rifling but deep frost throughout and could use a thorough cleaning.