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    No32 scope bracket question please help!

    Can you please help me identifiyng this No32 scope bracket. I can buy it from a friend, but I want to make him a good offer when it is original.

    I can't identify the marking, it is an W with an S.

    Thanks in advance, Dennis
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    Go on, I'll stick my head above the parapet, although I must be honest & say I've never seen a bracket quite like this one before. It looks to have some age & has been made to a fairly professional standard; it certainly looks on a par with a Dalgleish or Rose brothers product. Whilst another London based contractor was to have produced No32 brackets during the war, they were bombed out early on & so, it is said, production never got off the ground, & Dalgleish were brought in as the second contractor. However, the logo on this bracket would not be consistent with their initials (Elmbank Foundry). Also the numbering of the cradle clamps does not seem to be consistent with standard UKicon practice.

    I have a couple of part mahined bracket castings that are very similar in overall profile but they do not bear the company intials in relief (or indeed any identifying markings). Mine came out of Charnwood years ago & were a mystery to them too...

    I'd be interested to know if anyone else can id this bracket. My best guess would be that it was a replacement made, possibly by/for a friendly government that was supplied with the 4T at the end of or shortly after WW2. But that is only a suggestion......

    ATB

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    Isn't that the Smith & Wesson logo reversed?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Lancer View Post
    Isn't that the Smith & Wesson logo reversed?
    I'd say that it isn't fancy enough for S&W .

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    Sorry, new one on me as well.

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    6 or 8 decent photos might help. What we've got is about as dim as a toc-H lamp! 'Toc-H lamp' for you non Britishers...... toc-H was the slang for Talbot House, a society of friends of the Britishicon Army who provided comforts from home such as library books, etc etc. Their logo was a florence nightingale style lamp. Hence the phrase! On a par with a small scale NAAF1 eccept that being a Christian organisation, didn't have bars in their hostelries. A snug nightcap mug of Ovaltine or Cocoa was all you got at the toc-H. Most soldiers Christianity ended whern the NAAFI bar opened. Anyway, for you non ex soldiers, NAAFI = No Ambition And Fxxk-all Interest

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    Hi Peter, I shall ask for better pictures :-)

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    Dens a bit like this,, and then some of the front if you have the time.




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    I got better pictures, I hope they help.

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    @Dens-Mils, your location may be a bigger clue to the origins of your scope mount than anything else. The Dutch Army had lots and lots of Canadianicon vehicles, and Britishicon equipment after the war. I would be comfortable suggesting your mount is a Dutch-made postwar replacement part. For example, I saved some ebay pictures of a Dutch No.8 style case with suitcase type luggage clasps. And some of the more knowledgible No.4 (T) commentators don't recognize it as British.

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