I saw this post asking for help with a marking
Victorian Wars Forum View topic - Rifle stamp ID
and I was baffled.
I suggested the OP should post on this forum, but he/she hasn't - anyone got the answer?
Rob
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I saw this post asking for help with a marking
Victorian Wars Forum View topic - Rifle stamp ID
and I was baffled.
I suggested the OP should post on this forum, but he/she hasn't - anyone got the answer?
Rob
It's a cancellation or "sold out of service" stamp. I have an LMC that has a similar stamp, only it is one of those lines, end to end. That one looks as if it was stamped 3 times.
That's what it looks to me, here's the Cancellation mark on some Long Lee bolts to cancel out the serial numbersQuote:
Originally Posted by smle addict
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...2/Bolts1-1.jpg
That's what it looks like to me too...more picturesque than the normal arrows point to point.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5thBatt
I wish we could get the OP here. I'd love to see some more pics of the rifle. A commercial marked metford carbine with a sold out of service marking... he's got my attention.
It is a long shot but i wonder if it could be one of the 970 admiralty contract commercial sporters that were bought to arm trawlers etc in ww1???
edit: just noticed it has a cut out in the stock for a handguard clip so prob not an admiralty contract rifle.
RobD could you suggest he gets in contact with "Jc5" who is working on a book on commercial lee metford/endfields. Given the condition it looks like it has just resurfaced and its details wouldn't be recorded yet. I'll pm you his email if you could please pass it on.
First thing that I read is the BSA logo and Birmingham commercial proof marks. So yes, not a martial arm. Proof style is post 1910?
The pretty rosette is indeed somebody being artistic with the 'propeller' cancellation mark x 3. Not a standard marking, but somebody being creative with what they had on hand. It aint a British Ordnance mark for sure.
It might indeed be an attempt at creating a double broad arrow, but maybe not. It would be way, way easier to make a double broad arrow using a straight cold chisel tip. So I wonder what they were trying to do. What would be on the receiver flat to cancel?
What I do see is something on the right barrel reinforce. Maybe just my imagination, but could that marking be a broad arrow inside a U ? That would signify South African ownership.
Need to see more pics.