Super Mystery Revolver...

[Gewehr98]

Tamara, Dr. Rob...

As I'm sitting here looking at the markings on the receiver of a Siamese Mauser, I keep thinking the same thing. Burma/Myanmar.

If I can get the Mauser to sit still on my flatbed scanner, I'll upload an image. It's remarkably similar to what's on that revolver.

 

[Josey]

I wonder? The Chindits made homemade copies of British and other weapons. They have shown up from time to time. They made all sorts of things that they couldn't get past the Japanese. I have seen copies of several different SMGs and very good copies of Browning 1921/2s. That would put it in the CBI theatre.

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

that's the smiley face from the "Insane Clown Posse" logo

 

[MaterDei]

It is definitely one of the following

1. Nepalese
2. Extraterrestrial
3. Something else

HTH

 

[Biff]

With the amount of text on the barrel, it is obviously a Southeast Asian copy of a Ruger!

 

[Tamara]

With the amount of text on the barrel, it is obviously a Southeast Asian copy of a Ruger!

*snicker!*


My favorite theory thus far is that it's a product of a shadetree gunsmith on Mindanao, based on the following:

1) The Japanese had been there.
2) They have a tradition of homemade guns, and there was enough of an American presence on the island to explain why it was a copy of a Smith and not, say, a Webley.
3) They're Muslim, which would explain the scimitar.

An interesting possibility explaining the mystery alphabet is that it's just "Greeking" put there by an illiterate 'smith. "The gun I am copying has these indecipherable markings here, so I will put some indecipherable markings on mine in the same place."


This theory could get shot down in flames fast if I could identify the alphabet, though.

 

[FPrice]

Tamara...

"This theory could get shot down in flames fast if I could identify the alphabet, though."

If someone here has access to a Professor of Foreign Languages in a Linguistics Dept of a University or College you might get an identification of the language. Find someone who specializes in Asian languages.

It's worth a shot. <GROAN>

 

[BonesofGa.]

Tamara, try www.armscollectors.com and scroll down to serial numbers, foreign language. It's worth a shot just to see.

 

[BigG]

Back in the 60s, I remember reading with great interest about the guys in Pakistan/Afghanistan area filing firearms out of lumps of steel. They made some damn good repros with the tools and materials they had.

 

[pbhome71]

What year were these been picked up?

 

[pbhome71]

I looked at revolver4.jpg and it seems that the top of the barrel has 4 sets of repeat set of characters.

It looks like a badly execute roman characters roll-mark. The word looks like (with lots of imagination...):
WUOG62TAF&2NDEFT

JPEG is very hard to see, inspite of the quality of the picture... A picture in "raw" mode probably is easier to decipher.

This probably does not help... but it is sure fun to try to figure thing out.

-Pat

 

[pbhome71]

G98,

If I can get the Mauser to sit still on my flatbed scanner, I'll upload an image. It's remarkably similar to what's on that revolver.

I would love to see these markings.

Thanks,
-Pat

 

[BigG]

Flashback

This takes me back to studying international marketing and the infamous Henshey Bars, etc. packaged exactly like their famous counterparts with just a misspelled name. ADove bar soap was another brand. Came from Philippine Is, or some Spanish speaking area. IIRC.

 

[BigG]

You know that piece looks like a conflation of S&W and Coltic features. The butt, for example looks a bit more Colt-like; whilst other features like the front sight and cylinder release appear S&Wic. Isn't regulation police a Colt model name? BTW, whoever did make it was a heckuva lot more adept with a file than I am.

Is that a part of your collection, Tams?

 

[Jagermeister]

In my rummaging, I found the attached, which has a similairity to the one shown.

JM