The barrel and lock frame are supposed coming from German guns. Small parts are hard to say, could be replacement. It's a parts gun, whatever roughly fits goes in, whatever misses has a replacement.
I don't think Chinese made whole gun. No need to do that and no driving force to do that. First, there were tons of these there waiting to be dumped into blast furnace. Second, these were sold very cheap to wholeseller. No one had desire or obligation to make foreign collector happy, that's not the business goal. The business goal was to squeeze last drop of value out of those guns at the lowest possible cost. If dumping into furnace, the value would be measured by weight in the unit of ton. Dumping to U.S. was obviously a better choice.
Making a serious gun from scratch requires lots of work, making a few parts and assembling from parts... even small airgun factory could do it. And, look at this quality -- this is not serious arsenal quality, even from Chinese standard.
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[Edit] Book value is listed in Blue Book. Suggest consulting that before acquiring. There are a bunch of "TU" titled ones, this is one of them. There are a series unrelated stuffs under that category.
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