http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=279890508
Insufficent funds no C&R. Nice looking lot though.
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http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=279890508
Insufficent funds no C&R. Nice looking lot though.
Wow, nice to see they can still be found, if only importing was easier.
That is really cool!
Followed the link.
Great Pics.
First time in my life that I have wished that I was a Canadian........sort of....
Paul
I was quietly watching those. The cat is out of the bag!!
I noticed the case is marked "No. 1" as if to imply there may be more to come.
Also, I wonder who the seller is? The location is marked as "New York."
I find the dual French/Flemish markings intriguing. Did the box go to Belgium and return or was scheduled to but didn't make it?
First time I wish I lived in the the US. What a find and I doubt there's more as the crate #1 was probably from the original shipment to Belgium. The price is cheap considering, just unfortunate they are in the US and I am in Canada. Now if Brian Dick was the seller knowing his reputation I would be tempted to try work thru the importation process.
Wow...that's amazing. It would be an outrage if the buyer were to break up the set.
And those postwar Long Branch rifles are just beautiful.
Look at what the seller is also selling - marked as an L39A1, of all things...that'll put a cat amongst the pigeons...
Saved auction data here for future research and posterity .... :)
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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.
Damn that hot!
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian B
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Goot thought on saving the photos etc..!
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.
Looking at the replys I feel like a Milsurp Pornographer.
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.
gun porn ..... yummy
This could be the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by newcastle
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homer
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
I´ve always wished I was a Canadian ... or maybe NZ. Rather be dead than any other.Quote:
Originally Posted by paulseamus
I have to commend the person who commented on the archived pictures from GB as "Gun Porn". They really are... An unreachable investment for most of us - (we can't get the funds approved by our family budget committee ;) ) Non-the-less the pictures capture the breath and make us pause,
See the bidding has stalled at $3,185.00 for now and obviously in the mind of the bidders is getting close to today's value. I still think they will get closer to $3,500.00 before this is over. Just wish these were for sale in Canada as I think I would be willing to eat KD for a few months to be able to own them.
Well they went for $5,350.00 which is higher than I thought they would and maybe a little overpriced IMO but what do I know. Someone did get 4 absolutely beautiful rifles however.
Sequentially numbered also so they're for a collection. Virtually certainly the winner is on here somewhere.
Yes, the real tragedy is that the other rifles are already gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by enbloc8
It would be nice to have a full consecutive case.
You guys have all jumped to the conclusion that it is a full case, the seller does not say or imply it, and picture number 2 clearly shows that it isn't full.
If so they need to confess and post some good pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by newcastle
I don't think enbloc8's comment necessarily implied it was a full crate, but rather a set of four consecutively numbered rifles and a full case would only make it more unaffordable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee Enfield
I think the price is probably fair to a wealthier man than me.
Sold for $5,350.00 U.S. (45 bids)
Regards,
Doug
Treasure. I for one have never seen a new LB MkI*.