Yesterday's Weapons Forums

As promised some pictures of the Nagant 1895 revolver I bought from Bruce.
The revolver was manufactured by Tula in 1935.
You can find lots of markings on it.
I recognize most of them, because they can also be found on most Mosin Nagants.
I made some detailed pictures of some of them.

I had to have a good reason to get this revolver on my collectors license because the theme of my collection is the Mosin Nagant rifle and carbine.
That theme doesn't include the Nagant revolver so I had to find the link.
Here's the link between the Nagant 1895 revolver and the Mosin Nagant rifle.

Before the Russians adopted the Nagant revolver they used the French Galand revolver.
Not all of these revolvers were made in France though.
Some of them were manufactured by……the Nagant brothers.
Because of this fact the Nagant brothers got to know a lot of high ranked Russian officers.
This paid off, because around 1890, the Nagant brothers heard that the Russians were testing new rifles to replace their Berdan II’s.
They send some Nagant rifles and some ammo to the Russians and the Russians started to test both the Mosin and the Nagant rifles.
The Nagant rifle turned out to be the better one, but the Russians…being Russians……didn’t like that and combined both rifles.
They took the Mosin rifle and replaced the Mosin made feeding system and magazine by the one made by the Nagant brothers.
The Mosin Nagant was born.
A couple of years later the Russians wanted to adopt a new revolver and…….you already guessed it…..Leon Nagant heard about this and offered the Russians a revolver, now known as the Nagant 1895.
Because of this connection between the Nagant revolver and the Mosin Nagant rifles I got permission to add a Nagant revolver to my collection.

Check this out





.....very complete....











Second type wooden grips


Tula star and beneath that, the square box with the vertical line, the metal-refurbishment stamp.


Hope you liked the pictures.
I sure am proud to own this revolver now.
Not just the fact that I own one, but also the way that I got it.
Thanks……all of you.


Met vriendelijke groet,

Martin

beautiful revolver martin , these intrigue me with their obvious machineing interest ,

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