Sharing pics of my buddies new buy - sino soviet

[gew98]

Saw this for sale. It's an import marked example that came out of Albania. Its a matching 4 digit serial sino soviet type56 that has never been reworked. I almost pulled the trigger on it but I have a dear friend whom was looking for such an oddity so I turned him onto it and he got it for less than a grand.

[echo1]

Nice git. I recently sold off the last 2 of my sellable Chinese rifles, early '57-'61. One was a 7 digit the other was an "A" series 4 digit. That rifle, the original stock was a restamped repo, so I put it in Russian laminate with a Romy sling. PAX

Both guns before the swap


After the Russian furniture

[Phosphorus32]

If the bolt carrier matches the receiver serial number, then that's a 1959-60 era letter gun. Definitely a nice relatively early blade-bayonet-equipped Type 56 for a collection 

The 4 digit serial number (1-2000, no letter) Type 56s are true rarities and I'd be willing to pay around 1K for one of those in original configuration.

[gew98]

You can see in the pics it's a letter series  'E' complete matched non refurbed type 56. As I said I would love to have it , but sometimes you just have to let good friends have some great pieces too. If that had been non import marked , well I would have had to grab it.

[running-man]

Nice that it was all matching. So many of the Sino-Banian letter series had replacement stocks or mismatched recover covers.

[gew98]

No doubt much of the early type 56's got rode hard , put up wet and salvaged.