Thanks for the comment on the rifle. I simply cannot pass up nice wood and these old warhorse often sport wood some fine commercial rifles only fantasize about! I picked up the rifle at a gunshow- Didn't even know what it was but I knew any BRNO with a good bore for $140 out the door was a deal I wasn't passing up! (he was asking $175, said he'd take $150 and accepted my counter offer of the $140. )

But about the bayo, what date? Is that "23" the year then? And I am not so bad off with the scabbard since this rifle has those Arab(?) Farsi(?) numbers on the sight ladder.