Offbeat note: Lowe was Jewish, as were his descendants. No FFL is necessary to ship or transfer it. All told, a typical Argentine Model 1891/09. Bore looks OK, with maybe a bit of frosting. Yes, your rifle was upgraded to the Model 1891/09 standard. The barrel of my Model 1891/09 carbine appears to have been set back and rechambered, but I have seen other Model 1891/09 carbines which were obviously rebarreled. The chamber throat is also much longer on the early carbine than my Model 1891/09 carbine. Their rear sight bases are identical, but the ladder graduations are different. The later Model 1891/09 carbine rear sight goes to 1,400 meters. I do have a Model 1891 cavalry carbine with a sight which only goes to 1,300 meters.
The Argentines apparently did not consider it a high priority to convert all the carbines. I have never seen a long rifle with the early ladder sight, but have seen a number of cavalry carbines with early rear sights. The later Model 1891/09 rifle sights are graduated to 2,000 meters.
He did not have such a rifle, but had handled one in Rosario while he was collecting information for a book he was writing. An advanced collector told me that the early Model 1891 sights only went to 1,800 meters. The original Model 1891 ladder sights for RN bullets had shorter maximum ranges.
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