If we're talking about the same gun, I have been meaning to drive down and look at it, but it is a bit of a drive and I'm not all that hot on Mosins anyway, although I have a few. I do have an interesting bringback Russian 1944 that I purchased from a Korean War vet in the 1960s.
It's a 1944 date with some original finish left and some red paint in the hammer and sickle which some tell me was applied at the factory. Don't know if that's BS or not.
What makes it interesting is that it has Chinese characters painted on the buttstock. I took it to my local Chinese restaurant and although the owner couldn't decipher all of it, he told me that part of it referred to some "committee."
Some enterprising Chinese or North Korean soldier also inletted the buttstock for a Mauser or Jap type sling swivel and made a homemade forward sling swivel that clamped around the barrel. Unfortunately, I took it off and I can't remember if I disposed of it (years ago) or threw it in some junk parts box.
It was always a good shooter, though, and (in my "youth"), I bayoneted more than one abandoned car in the everglades. It's a miracle I didn't snap it off, but I really didn't care what happened to it in those days. (Paid $20.00 for it. LOL)
Unfortunately, in those days nobody cared about "capture papers" and, to be honest, like my dad who fought in the Bulge after surviving the torpedoing of his troop ship in the Channel, just wanted to forget what they went through. I wish now that I had those papers with this gun. A genuine Mosin-Nagant bringback. LOL!!