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    Help with LEC1 buttstock marking

    I have just acquired a nice LEC Mk 1 dated 1896. The marking disc to 4H is 4th Hussars, I believe. Can anyone identify the oval cartouche just in front of the buttplate, above the number 405?
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    RNWMP...Royal North West Mounted Police......
    M & D (Militia and Defense) Canadianicon
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    PM me the serial number along with the bolt number (they probably do not match) and I can authenticate it for you

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    Any more pics Rob ?

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    The NWMP sounds interesting. Here is my LEC1 also marked M&D as well as with a disk to the 4th Hussars.

    Warren, mine has been sanded and I was wondering if it had also spent time with the NWMP as it has a rack number in a similar places and heavy sanding where the NWMP roundel would have been, Serial numbers are all matching.








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    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you are three digits away from the closest listed serial number. One clue with RNWMP carbines is that only a few had matching bolts so most will be mismatched.
    Close but no cigar as the man says.
    Nice Canadianicon M&D markings.

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    Thanks Warren, if it hadn't been for Rob's thread, I wouldn't have had any idea about the possibility

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    Warren,
    the receiver, barrel and bolt are all numbered 1499

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    Sabona uBaba! Great to see to your LEC 1 is from the same stable as mine (excuse the pun). Was in PMB last week and had the best steak I've had in either hemisphere at Traffords, just next to the NC parade ground. Sala kahle. Rob
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    Amatikuluicon, I think you can still see the M&D marking on your butt just above the Enfield cartouche. Combined with the rack no. in the same font as mine, it certainly suggests yours was Canadianicon at some point just like mine was...

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    Saubona, Numsane, it certainly has Canadianicon pedigree, here is a link to the Canadian Regiment

    www.canadiansoldiers.com

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    [QUOTE=RobD;295412]Warren,
    the receiver, barrel and bolt are all numbered 1499

    Hmm, the number 1499 does not appear in the list I have. I have penciled in a number of "orphans" and this one might be another. The stock is clearly marked RNWMP, so until there is evidence that someone has absconded with a RNWMP stamp, I am reasonably sure that yours is kosher. There is a faked LEC running around Canadaicon at the present but it is what it is...an obvious fake.

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