Glad we're in agreement....:D
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Glad we're in agreement....:D
The 'L42' is somewhat puzzling. Clearly not engraved up on the body side wall as would be expected on a 'real' one, yet within the limitations of the photographs the body looks like it might just...
Got a can Warren - mismatched but correct, but my rifle never came with the transit chest. It was Rob Hallam's & was imported from Collector's Source for his (Charnwood's) collection, before I bought...
More photo's would have been nice but the rifle is almost certainly wrong. The front pad looks like it may well be original but rather a take off from a late war BSA rifle. The rear pad also shows a...
Was this pattern of cheek piece a post WW2 variation, & is it an 'official' design? Have owned LB 4T's with three different slight variants of cheek piece, but all not too dissimilar to the UK...
I don't know, but I guess what you say is feasible, especially with it bearing the (perhaps???) lowest/first TP rifle number on it. This rifle & scope was in the collection of two well known Ontario...
Here are a few pictures of relevant parts of mine. You can see the scope & rifle serials I think. I've no idea what possessed someone to stamp the rifle serial by hand under the neatly engraved...
As far as I can recall Pete (Bloom) told me that he had acquired thirty sets of scopes & rings from Holland, & asked if I could get my machinist, Graham Smith, to make up some accurate copy bases....