SOLD VERY RARE JAPANESE NAVY ISSUED “C” PREFIX 1937 CZECH Vz24 RIFLE…..ALL MATCHING ……UN-ISSUED MINT SHARP!!!

This is certainly the finest example of an all matching totally untouched Japanese Navy purchased and issued Czech Brno Export Model Vz24  very rare “C” Prefix serial range 1937 dated Service Rifle that we have ever seen.  .

In the late 1930’s the Japanese Navy was forced to source the small arms it needed from Europe because the Japanese Army was allocated everything the Home Arsenal’s could produce for the war in China.  The Famous Czech Firm of Brno had large numbers of Vz24 Rifles on hand for export and they were actively selling them to both the Nationalist Chinese Government and later to the Japanese Navy and also to Several European Nations such as Romania and Slovakia.  These rifles are identified by the “P” suffix serial number, however there was a special group of rifles that were produced at Brno’s Bystrica Factory and they are marked with a “C” suffix only on the stock.  This is one of those very rare rifles, and they are confirmed to have been entirely shipped solely to the Imperial Japanese Navy and no other attribution has been found.   The Japanese Naval use of these rifles is well documented, they armed landing parties from ships and the very Famous Special Naval Landing forces, the Japanese Marines.  Large cashes of these rifles are known to have come from Truk and the Philippines as well as the Main Japanese Naval Bases of Sasebo and Yokouska so it is likely that this un-issued rifle came from one of these places.