Rarity of a Type 30 rifle

[WillHill]

I have just had a look at another database of Type 30 rifles and it is interesting that several in the same serial number range as yours have seen Finnish service. Finland captured numbers of Arisakas from the Russians (who had about 600,000, of which about 130,000 came from the British)) and when the remaining British Arisakas were sold in 1919 it is known they ended up in Finland.
It would be fascinating if there was an "SA" mark on yours indicating Finnish service.

[burb1989]

Will I've taken the rifle completely apart and found no SA mark on it anywhere so the mystery continues.

[browningautorifle]

Nice looking mum on that one. Nice to see one for a change.

[Aragorn243]

For some reason the mums seem to have survived on the Type 30's. A lot of them were probably disposed of prior to WWII.