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Title: Arsenal 636 marking?
Post by: RoscoeTurner on April 18, 2025, 08:31:43 PM
Purchased this SKS today, the arsenal marking looks like a cross between the 636A and 636B examples in the arsenal marking chart.  The right 6 has a base like the 636A drawing and the left like that of 636B.  Has this been reported in the past?

(https://i.ibb.co/NnbLH2Th/1175.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zHDS0V6c)
Title: Re: Arsenal 636 marking?
Post by: running-man on April 21, 2025, 10:31:44 AM
It appears that year 22 /636\ guns generally have a version of this stamp like yours shows with the atypical stamp.  I'm honestly not even sure where the A and B versions come from, in my files I only track them as /636\ with no distinction.  Here's a grouping of them, I can't make out a definite A vs B or a transition year (maybe the second year 14 gun??? But then I have many other year 14s that show sharp corners on the 6's).

Year 13:
(https://i.ibb.co/zWpBCj9X/1304374-receiver.jpg)


Year14:
(https://i.ibb.co/jvxqTdjc/1400349-receiver.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/1YnzTNZt/1412261-receiver.jpg)


Year 16:
(https://i.ibb.co/3mFPZk5g/1616034-receiver.jpg)


Year 17:
(https://i.ibb.co/9m6C8vwR/1710383-receiver.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/7tt46vYG/1715453-receiver.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/XrHdmB9T/1323159-receiver.jpg)


Year 18:
(https://i.ibb.co/Z6bS6VWg/1827328-receiver.jpg)


Year 22:
(https://i.ibb.co/Cs629CF7/22047732-arsenal-stamp.jpg)


Years 26:
(https://i.ibb.co/zW2Lz8LR/26002172-arsenal-stamp.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/sJdLJPxL/26014787-arsenal-stamp.jpg)



LC will have to comment on it as I believe he was the one that coded them as A or B.
Title: Re: Arsenal 636 marking?
Post by: RoscoeTurner on April 21, 2025, 12:10:25 PM
Thank you for sharing those photos, it is very interesting seeing the variety.