US Model of 1917 Chinese marked

[breakeyp]

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Stock markings may be Chinese or Japanese or from the Philippines??? Receiver ring has been scrubbed. My usual luck is that the markings will translate as "Made in USA."

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[fjruple]

The rifle is probably an Eddystone as the serial numbers for the other two manufacturers did not go up that high. Very nice rifle.

[RC20]

I don't know what you have, the SN is a bit hard to see but looks like 5 or 6 or 9 first number?

Is it a 30-06 or is it 303?

None have ever been reported reliably back from the Philippines. Most were burned when the US took the Philippines back (Japanese had equipped themselves in part with those) - no idea why they were burned, maybe just declared a hazard after 4 years of high humidity and heat and poor care.

Not a likely war bring back, not out of the question but a lot have looked and no one ever document a family member in the Philippines with a 1917 from the war.

A few have been brought back from Vietnam that would be from China originally (they don't throw anything away) and a couple from Asia that wandered over that way.

[breakeyp]

.30-06