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Captured M91 rifles don't show up very often with Civil Guard numbers. I've seen a couple "in the wild" but I'd venture to say it's a bit uncommon.
Either way - it looks like a nice rifle. Congrats!

It gets a yes vote from me. Wonderful to see one in detail here.

Nice!

Here's a SIG straight barrel with a three digit serial number (370). No dot in front of the number, but a small S instead. Matching bolt with receiver marked with a random number on the back. Anyone have an earlier number - maybe a two digit serial? We'd love to see it.

Looks nice - lots of interesting Balkan traits.
I'm curious about the M crown mark. I looked on 7.62x54.net, but didn't see one. Anyone know what specific country/King that represents?

I'll give that a "yes" vote. Very nice!

Looks like a German capture mark on the stock as a bonus. Nice find!

That's an extremely attractive M91 there. Congratulations!

Cool picture... but my shoulder hurts just looking at it.

Serial numbers at that time were kind of like license plate numbers - two letters followed by (usually) up to four numerals. The pattern of progression is unknown so what you have may not be a low number after all. I believe the 91/59's retain their original serial numbers - not positive though. I a...

I like the unslotted stock! Nice find.

Now that we can see it being stamped above the import serial numbers, I'd think it's highly suspicious!

I don't think I've seen an M39 with a repair to the "pistol grip" area like that. Thanks for sharing.

A couple months ago I got a chance to buy this Finnish Lotta from a long time collector. It's a SIG stepped barrel (s/n 60xx) and appears to be in original inventory condition. It's seen some use, but the bore is pretty clean and sharp with no counter-bore! The bolt is unmarked and no other numbers ...

The square with a line through it is a typical refurb mark. The "SD" above the serial number is an import addition - some imports have that translation of cyrillic letters into latin equivalents. The cyrillic "GR" is an unidentified Soviet marking seen on this page in photos 7B a...

Romanian mosins are an "anything goes" mix of salvaged pieces/parts, but they sure did a good job with the M91 spliced stocks they made! They're almost always good quality, complex splices. Just thought I'd stick up for the poor Romanians here.

That's the first time I saw the army stamp on top of the civil guard mark - interesting! I see it has the "christmas tree" mark, but it doesn't look like the barrel has been cut - anyone know what that may mean...? It's the second time I've seen the mark on an apparent full barrel. You got...

I've always read that the УЧ was a Russian mark, but that's all I know of it. My friend has a 91/30 with the mark crudely stamped with what appears to be a screwdriver or chisel! Your clear marking on a trials rifle is a gem of a find in my opinion.

Unsure what that is, but I recall something about a circled cyrillic "D" being a Serbian aid mark. I could be wrong on that, but it would only apply to an older WWI era rifle.

The Russian "r" translates to "g" in English. I read somewhere that this is an abbreviation for God (бо г ) as in "year of our lord". But, as Longcolt indicated, the meaning is "year". I'll try and verify that with a friend of mine from Ukraine. Your M-39 is ...