I'm going to be honest, She's a little rough but we've seen a lot worse here .
I can't quite tell, is she a 55' stamped or do you know it's a 55' by serial data kind of like mine
I've not seen that type of renumbering on the TG myself, is that specific to the Irkutsk refurb facility?
Everything Boris said above
and it’s a known letter block for ‘55s.
It is definitely a heavy refurb and the high temperature paint doesn’t age well if the rifle is used. This is only the second SKS with bbq paint that I’ve bought (my ‘49), but I’m accustomed to late WWII and beyond Lee-Enfields and their Suncorite paint, French 7.5x54 MAS models, post-WWII FN offerings, and a few others, which also did the Parkerizing and paint. The point being, I’m used to the appearance, although I’d say the Russian refurbishment paint appears to be the least durable.
I don’t recall seeing a trigger guard scrubbed that deeply before on a Russian. The EP’d numbers are quite faint too.
My 1954 Izhevsk also went through the Irkutsk Arsenal No. 109, but it didn’t get the bbq paint. Refurbishment processes changed over time, even within the same facility.