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Help identifying a couple Long Branch No.4 markings
Hi folks, I have a 1943 Long Branch No.4 Mk1* I purchased back in the 2000s, mainly because it was cheap. I soon moved on to other things and into storage it went. Over time, my interests having changed a bit, and having been recently obsessed with all things Lee-Enfield, I've dusted it off. No apparent FTR/refurb marks (at least that I could identify), lots of Long Branch stamps, Fazakerly magazine, and Stevens-Savage bolt head and cocking piece, but the rest of looks more or less straight. It has the war-expedient 2-position flip aperture sight. I'm mainly curious as to what army it was issued to, if any. On the buttsocket and the underside of the wrist are a few markings that look like they could possibly be the remains of a poorly-struck, mostly worn-off (or both) Canadian "broad arrow" - or maybe they're something else completely, but they don't seem to resemble anything else I've seen so I thought I'd ask here, where the Lee-Enfield experts seem to reside. I've included a couple of photos which I realize may be useless. In any case, thanks for your time, this website and these forums have been a great place to deep-dive on the lore of these rifles.
