What is the rarest most expensive Enfield? Would like to know or get an idea on price. Then I'll post what someone told me the other day, you'll laugh.
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What is the rarest most expensive Enfield? Would like to know or get an idea on price. Then I'll post what someone told me the other day, you'll laugh.
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The snipers based on the no4 seem to fetch high prices...
way out of my pocket....oh well.....
Like how high of a price? $200,000? The other day, I was over at my friend's place. I just met him this summer, super super nice guy. I buy my ammo from him, he has a buisness and runs it out of his house right now. I go there once in a while just to talk guns or ham radio with him. And he likes to talk lol. Bought a really nice 1911 SMLE from him this Summer.
Anyways we were talking guns the other night and I told him that I'd lile to start collecting more old collectable guns. So he goes in the back and comes out with an odd Enfield. Said it was a Calvary Enfield. The top of the barrel was exposed. The handguard only covered the bottom of the barrel. The barrel protruded from the handguard 3 inches or so unlike my SMLE. It had the front volley sight, the back one was missing. It also had the mag cut off. Only markings I saw was G.B. The pric $200,000. OMG, yeah right. I didn't want to tell him that was total BS, just was like oh, ok. He also said it was 120 years old.
He also told me he had a 1903 Sniper for$20,000. Glad I got that SMLE for only $200 lol. Are there crazy expensive Enfields out there?
Are there crazy ex
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L98A1. I know of only one in civilian hands in the UK.
Not actually an Enfield but L96s are rare too.
whats the price on something like that
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Never seen a 'proper' WWI SMLE sniper for sale (or a no3t) - they would be very very pricey.
L42A1s with full CES are around £4,500 - £6k in the UK.
Check the MKL .... ;)
There are several Enfield rifles in the Experimental Section (click here) that would bring a fair amount at auction.
Regards,
Doug
Genuine Australian snipers and any of the "XP" and No6 series Lithgow "jungle" carbines are going for silly money. Given the total production figures, that is not surprising.
A REAL Canadian J5550 carbine would be worth a few bob these days as well.
Never mind genuine De Lisles, Charltons, or any of the trials Metfords or Remington Lee trials / "concept" funnies.
What would the couple of surviving Lithgow 7.62 NATO trials carbines with the FAL mags be worth?
How about the Pratt and Whitney "proof" SMLES supplied with the factory gear sent to Lithgow?
.276 Pederson SMLE made by BSA?
Bruce put some dollars to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce_in_Oz
The most expensive Enfield is the one that you haven't got, have seen for sale and the handbrake says your cant have without "penalties" being imposed on you by her.
:nono: :bash:
I would think of the SMLEs the most expensive would be one of the original trials rifles then a P&W & then a ConD Mk1
Talking of the trials rifles, what has become of the Faris collection?
I recall that, some years back, No6 carbines were running between $4000 to $6000 U.S.
The two variants of the "shortened and lightened" Lithgow rifles were selling for more, as they are somewhat scarcer.
The 7.62 modified No6 carbines: As far as I know, there is ONE in private hands; this out of a trials batch believed to be less than ten.
As for the actual Remington-Lee rifles used for Brit evaluation, I suspect they would be close to priceless.
Regarding the J5550: maybe our Canadian cousins could chime in. I have seen one UNUSED action and a used stock in Australia. The odd thing was that the MINT action did not fit the USED stock correctly, which makes me suspect that there were at least two variations.
As far as I know "enfield sniper guns" didnt exist until mid way in WW1 when the British finally got around to officially countering the German snipers? Early in WW1 it was home grown, ie ppl brought their own target rifles or got them made up by a gunsmith in the UK and shipped over. So one from 1903 sounds rather dodgy to me to say the least.
Now $20k for a genuine, first class WW1 sniper rifle when most were scrapped after WW1 I can believe/accept.
regards
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When something is so rare, its what a collector will pay. A work collegue sold a very rare 1950s model train recently, the buzz was from all over the world on it...Quote:
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He told me this rifle was $200k US, not $20K. I didn't believe him from the beginning. Dosen't sound like even the rarest most sought after Enfield would even be close to 200k.
I have only seen one gun that was in the $200k range. And that was a mint condition solid Brass Gattling Gun from the Civil War era. They showed it on Pawn Stars. Now that makes sense.
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I think the L42A'1 and the other Lithgow/pratt and Whitney machinery test models,plus the original lithgow snipers, would top the list but of course all this has already been said
Yes as is the case with trying to convince the Minister for Finance and War that this is a good buy and that they are an investment, this is the last 303 you will buy (till the next one rocks up) so I am up to No.6 running the wire on excuses as the No.4 "T"was not a cheap piece to buy (in Australia anyway), on top of the Wild dog camo stocked APRS 308 I got last year has storm clouds a rising, my punishment hours on a reloading press doing her ammo and my sons a small price to pay.
And no I do not put a reduced load in so she gets an unexplained 4 as my wife will still hit me even if I zig zag, but you know this has got me thinking I saw an M-82 the other day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dancingbanana: :bow:
Aaron1100us, from your description the rifle in question may be a Magazine Lee-Enfield or "Long Lee". For a really nice example of one I could believe a price of $2,000. Does your friend have a sense of humor?
He must lol but I think he believes himself for some reason. And he claims to have a $20k 1903 sniper. Good guy and really nice but wow, the things he comes up with. He must think I'm really stupid or something.
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If it was a carbine then I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have a volley sight so its either a Long Lee or a Carbine in a Long Lee stock. A s**t load like this came out of South Africa a few years back, I bought one for £150 and its crap.
The only thing i can think of that would be rare & may (dont think so though) command the high price would be a trials MkII MLM (the one without the lower band) but thats a full length rifle & not a carbine & i dont believe the early trials MLMCC had volley sights.
my highest value Enfield is my LongBranch #4T. The value of it's parts is hard to calculate. I really enjoyed the Resurrection. gary...
I also rememeber him saying it was issed to an executioner and that it is some Calvery rifle. I'll see if he will let me take a picture of it.
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If you go onto EFD website they have a ww1 sniper for sale, i understand they have four or five others that are not on there web-site, one is a 1915 Enfield SMLE with PP&Co scope, two Enfield SMLE 1915 Aldis scopes dated 1915 , one Winchester A5 scoped 1915 SMLE. All these do zero, unlike others out there.