![]() Brno manufactured rifles have serial number suffixes (such as 1234 A5) and Považská Bystrica rifles have serial number prefixes (such as A1 2345). ![]() The Czechs opened a second rifle plant in the late 1930s in Považská Bystrica, they're VTLU code was "E4" Also, when the Czechs opened the the Považská Bystrica, they devised a serial number system to avoid one plant doubling the other plants serial numbers. As an example, E3(lion)37 "E3" means it was accepted by the Czech army in Brno and "37" means it was accepted in 1937. The stamp includes the code for the location of the inspector, the Czech lion crest, and the last two digits of the year it was accepted. Czech rifles with lion crests will have a VTLU code (Czech Army acceptance stamp) on the side of the reciever ring, just above the serial number. All Romanian vz.24 start with a two letter prefix, the second letter is always "R" i.e., AR, BR, CR. The easiest way to tell a Romanian contract vz.24 in the serial number. If you have a scrubbed lion crest, the outline of the lion may look like a wreath. Czech vz.24s have a lion crest, vz.24s built by the Czechs for the Romanians have two different crests, one is a cross, the crest of King Micheal, the other is a wreath, the crest of King Carol.
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