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The serial number is 52xx and matches on the barrel and receiver. If that helps date it?

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No. As I wrote above, the inscriptions and the proof mark eagle alone date the rifle to 2 years in total: from April 1938 to March 1940. So it was most likely made in 1939. If you want to get even closer, take the rifle apart and look for the proof date, either .38 or .39 or .40. Steyr serial numbers are hardly usable for dating, as the Steyr files reside now in some Russian archive. Further, Steyr restarted each model with it's own serial number range, models 1903, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1924, 1925, 1950 all starting with #1 over again. Let alone the Greek Military M-Schs!

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