Gunbroker Enfields Full Crate NIB

[Badger]

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CRATE OF 4 CANADIAN NO. 4 MK 1 Enfield Rifles-NEW : Curios & Relics at GunBroker.com

Crate of 4 canadian no.4 mk 1 enfield rifles-new consecutive serial numbers-long branch 1950-mint

Description for Item # 279890508 Sold for $5,350.00 U.S. (45 bids)

This auction is for an original military crate of 4 Canadian No. 4 MK 1 Enfield rifles that are all in flat new mint condition. Rifles are consecutively serial numbered and all were built by Long Branch in 1950. Still have full original arsenal cosmoline and have 100% original metal and wood finish with no signs of handling or issue. New unfired bores packed with cosmoline. Of course, they each have all matching serial numbers. Crate in very good complete condition with original internal forms. Outside of crate has many original Canadian military stenciled markings. These rifles were originally intended as NATO aid for Belgians during the Korean War, as one of the stenciled markings states. An outstanding set of mint condition consecutively numbered Long Branch No. 4 Enfield rifles that will make a superb display and a great investment. Buyer pays $75 shipping US Postal Service for the rifles themselves. Shipping for crate will be 45 lbs from 13626 to your zip by UPS.

[NRA]

Damn that hot!

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I was quietly watching those. The cat is out of the bag!!

Opps! I gues I should have known I was not the only one who was computer literiate. I hope you/someone here has the funds. I too would hate to see them split up.

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Goot thought on saving the photos etc..!

[enfield303t]

Still cheap at just over $2,800.00

Considering people have LB's for sale fairly well beat at over 600.00 these are still a bargain at $3,185.00.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Looking at the replys I feel like a Milsurp Pornographer.

[newcastle]

You know what I would really like, and that would be the experience of whoever rediscovered these rifle in the crate and saw them for the first time. I think it highy unlikely that these have been known of for all this time, with somone waiting for the rigth time to sell. Someone recently got to open a box and say "Bloody hell. Look what we have here. This is amazing". similar to the thrill of finding an in the wrap No.4 in the back roon of a gunstore or a No.1 Mk 5 in with a bunch of No.1 Mk3's. To a certain extent, the internet , with all the knowledge it has made available to us would be collectors, has also at the same time denied many of us the chance to make finds like this.

[NRA]

gun porn ..... yummy

[Homer]

You know what I would really like, and that would be the experience of whoever rediscovered these rifle in the crate and saw them for the first time. I think it highy unlikely that these have been known of for all this time, with somone waiting for the rigth time to sell. Someone recently got to open a box and say "Bloody hell. Look what we have here. This is amazing". similar to the thrill of finding an in the wrap No.4 in the back roon of a gunstore or a No.1 Mk 5 in with a bunch of No.1 Mk3's. To a certain extent, the internet , with all the knowledge it has made available to us would be collectors, has also at the same time denied many of us the chance to make finds like this.

This could be the case.

There was a lithgow advertised on usedguns in Australia recently and I was told by the seller who is in very poor health that many years ago he was doing a building inspection for an elderly gentlemen when he discovered a large wooden crate in the ceiling space. Turns out it contained he thinks eight lithgows one of which the elderly gent gave him. It was covered in grease and he only fired 20 rounds through it recently before he sold it. Something he wanted to do before he dies.

That's what he told me anyway. Good story.

[trooper554877]

This could be the case.

There was a lithgow advertised on usedguns in Australia recently and I was told by the seller who is in very poor health that many years ago he was doing a building inspection for an elderly gentlemen when he discovered a large wooden crate in the ceiling space. Turns out it contained he thinks eight lithgows one of which the elderly gent gave him. It was covered in grease and he only fired 20 rounds through it recently before he sold it. Something he wanted to do before he dies.

That's what he told me anyway. Good story.

he was probably telling the truth.
the fact is that here in Australia after the war when the rifle clubs where run under the defence department a unissued Mk3 could be brought for 3 pound. A heavy barrel cost 4 Pound 7 and 5 (don't know how to type the old currency).
This is fact as i have a document that was issued to all rifle club captains, at least here in the west. It is dated 1959 and has all the instructions on how to run the club. It has a catalogue of a complete available stores list including rifles and parts.
Even replacement bolt heads with part numbers and head measurements. they range from .635 to .640.
So the story of 8 to a box is correct as when the clubs put in a request for a number of new rifles, they where sent in factory boxes, 8 to a box. they did also have a half box or 4 to a box.
They where sent by rail, as that was the main transport mode, and the club captain went down to the railway siding, signed for a nd drove off with the rifles. The ammo was supplied free of charge. All they had to do was put in the number of shooters X the number of shoots and how many rds fired at each shoot plus a 10% fudge factor and the ammo was shipped free of charge.

It is a great momento of a by gone era.
Cheers
Ned

[villiers]

Followed the link.

Great Pics.

First time in my life that I have wished that I was a Canadian........sort of....

Paul

I´ve always wished I was a Canadian ... or maybe NZ. Rather be dead than any other.