I have never owned or even handled any of the European Krags. It is easy to imagine they would show the same craftsmanship and smoothness of the American ones. We would be interested in seeing more of the details of yours.
On getting photos to acceptable size limits using Internet Explorer I right click on the photo and about 3 down on the menu is "edit", choose that and the photo come up in paint brush. Over on the left side of the menu is a resize menu. Usually 95 to 98% reduction works for me. I start out with 98% , after saving it with a different title, I check to see if I got enough reduction. If not I delete it and edit the original again till I get it small enough. There are probably other ways to reduce a photo but this is easy for me and works with what I have on hand.