Sterile SKS

Went to the big Crossroads of the West/Small Arms Review gunshow in Phoenix today, what a freakshow. I found a new condition/possibly unfired blue milled receiver SKS with no markings on it anywhere except for sn, and they are all matching, chrome bore and chamber, medium
length barrel collar, blade bayonet, red fiberglass stock, $200.
Obviously I bought it, but an acquaintance of mine says it it is rifle made for N. Vietnamese by Chinese during war and unmarked to hide China
supplying NVA.
Anybody know the story on these???

As more small Chinese arms manufacturers and factories came online during the post WWII World, many did not have their own stamps to mark such rifles and their small parts. It was unimportant to the Chinese to make sure everything was marked like some book of coin collecting would expect as they not only were not, but to this day are not firearm collectors. Your's is a nice variation, but not a part of a clandestine plan to hide the 200,000,000,000 people of China behind an unserialed Chinese SKS.

After all, it's a Chinese SKS.

easily worth what you paid,even before the current madness

Thanks for your response Nick, I disagree with your opinion, but that's the neat thing about then, everybody gets to have their own.
Ran it by a few people at show today who know a LOT more about them than me and they concour w/ original assesment.

I agree with Nick.

Why would the Chinese give one crap about people knowing they supplied the NVA?

Charlie was already running around with marked type 56 ak copies anyway.