IRCO Marking On Lee Enfield No.4 Buttstock

Picked up a beech Lee Enfield No.4 buttstock recently. Stamped on rear face of stock under buttstock bolt hole is "IRCO". I checked Skennerton WWII codes and manufacturers to no avail.

Does anyone have a clue who this firm was and whether it is a WWII era manufacturer?

Thanks in advance!

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Originally Posted by barbarossa

Picked up a beech Lee Enfield No.4 buttstock recently. Stamped on rear face of stock under buttstock bolt hole is "IRCO". I checked Skennerton WWII codes and manufacturers to no avail.

Does anyone have a clue who this firm was and whether it is a WWII era manufacturer?

Thanks in advance!

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Perhaps you mean ILCO...not IRCO

Try either Search this Forum located on navbar at top of thread, or the general search window located on the Navigation Bar at the top of this thread. ;)

Here's a few threads of what I found when typing in ILCO as a search request ...

SAVAGE on bayonet stud,what co. was ILCO?

Butt plate

Regards,
Doug

Thank you! ILCO stamp in wood is a mirror version, like it's been reversed. Must have been impressed into the wood under the buttplate.

Irco was a timber merchants in Swan Lane, Stoke , England before WW2 . You would need to research if they used this as a mark as I'm unsure if they actually manufactured anything.