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For a while Chris used to stall 'The International' Arms Fair in Brum. When he knew he was dying he invited a number of collectors up for a big sell off. Several forum members here were present. I saw a number of items of, shall we say, 'doubtful' provenance, but by no means all of Chris' stuff was fake. I came away with two beautiful hooked quillon 1907 bayonets as well as a very nice SMLE No2 MkIV*.
ATB
But tellingly DRP, you didn't come home with the saddle-ring No4 carbine or the No4T that's the subject of this thread. A word of advice though...... When you go to sell the hooked quillion bayonets, I wouldn't tell anyone where they came from !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(all said in jest of course...)
Actually DPL, one's already sold & the other I'm keeping! And I did look hard at them for signs of weld etc., before taking the plunge............
The No2 MkIV* was nice. WW1 dated body & in lovely order, but alas, smoothbored! For this reason it came at the right price. I kept quiet about the fact that I've got a brand new 22 SMLE barrel in the gunroom! I gather 22's are off ticket in France & I did wonder if once I've rebarrelled it I might keep it over there. However, I've no doubt the rules & regs over the channel are such that it won't be quite as simple as just taking it over. It would be nice to have my own functional SMLE actually on The Somme though..........
ATB