I have a spare original scope that I purchased from Pete Bloom at the same time I purchased the one listed in thread #6. You can add it to your list of numbers. It's 4438S with the original ring assembly numbered to rifle 74L0263.
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I have a spare original scope that I purchased from Pete Bloom at the same time I purchased the one listed in thread #6. You can add it to your list of numbers. It's 4438S with the original ring assembly numbered to rifle 74L0263.
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 (same) number.........but that's how Charnwood got it from Canada & that's how it came to me.
ATB.
Scope number isn't as clear as I'd hoped, but is 4678 S.
I wonder if the hand-stamped serial number on your rings is not the original, as the engraved serial is in a "non-standard" (high) position on the plate. Usually the serial is more or less centred in the plate between the locking levers.
Edited to add: maybe not as I reviewed some pics of other TP rings, which seem to be at the same position.
Also, I have noticed that the first 250+ serial numbers are engraved in a larger font than the last few.
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 based Canadian dealers till Charnwood bought them about twenty years ago, so although mis-matched the combo has been together for a long time. Oddly, although the Charnwood collection contained many tasty items this was the only one I ever purchased.
ATB
Here is my example, all "correct" as far as I can tell, only bad news is that the scope case got separated and lost....
Note the positioning of the original rifle serial number on the scope bracket.
From the Canadian Army EME Manual Weapons C 500 p. 4 Issue 3 - 21 Apr 53
Image and close-up of same photo enhanced to show the number a little better.
Close-up examination shows that it is 74L0209 The full scope serial number is illegible in the photo. All I can read are the S and the /|\ that follows the SN.
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https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...p_zps2cb-1.jpg
No, the lowest serial I have actually observed is 74L0000 and the highest is 74L0340 (held in my hot little hands...)
http://photos.imageevent.com/badgerd...os/TP%2020.JPG
looks like 209 might have lost it's rifle...or a very near relative