1597 US "pre-86" Dealer Sample, ARS https://dealernfa.com/shop/mkv-sterl...r-xs1597-1597/
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and now very close to 1600 serials before the "S" prefix was added
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1597 US "pre-86" Dealer Sample, ARS https://dealernfa.com/shop/mkv-sterl...r-xs1597-1597/
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and now very close to 1600 serials before the "S" prefix was added
started adding replacement photos
US "Dealer's Sample" former Singapore Police "SPF 33" (marked on bottom of mag well)
POST-86 DEALER SAMPLE
Sterling Mk5 - YouTube
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S2238 Mk5, Pistol Grip dated 1972 (bolt date hidden) https://www.gunbroker.com/item/983263982
Sienna Armory LLC
Yep, they're sure neat. I only handled one years ago but it makes you want one.
Centrefire automatic silenced submachine gun - Sterling Patchett Mk.5 (L34A1), skeleton (about 1967-1993) - Royal Armouries collections
S3906 from the Royal Armouries collection
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Ressurrecting this thread from the dead to show my "sort of" MK5, although the correct designation is actually Mk IV. There were apparently only 13 of these specifically manufactured in a special run for Peter Wilke of Ontaria Gun and Tackle, a prolific Canadian dealer in military surplus firearms and associated exotica/raffica back primarily during the 1980s. They are a semi-automatic-only, closed-bolt gun, built on a Mk 5 Receiver, to include the 3 Alignment/End-Cap threaded Rods. There are no internals (Mesh, Spiral Diffuser, etc) as the barrel runs the length of the Suppressor Casing to project just past the End-Cap. The right side of the Trigger Housing is engraved "Sterling, England" over top of "O.G.T. Canada" to denote the special run between Sterling and Wilke.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...13162732-1.jpg
Sterling SMG 9mm Supressed (L34A1/Mk.5) | cgfirearms
Live Mk5 for sale in the UK
Serial # 297
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L34A1 S3800 is in NZ, I got to handle it the other day. New condition, what a lovely piece of kit I think the bolt is dated 1985
Talking of the Singapore Police. We used to be the Base Workshop facility for them and the Inspector that we dealt with was a Mr Soliano. He was always pretty good to us, taking one or two of us into Singapore when we were dowwn from 'up-country' for various reasons, the main one being WORP's - or War Office Repair Programmes. The first L34's I ever saw were the New Zealand Army ones that were landed there and soon afterwards, th local SPF police ones. These were commercial ones with hand grips and if I remember correctly, small rubber disposable buffers in the return spring cap.
The NZ Army ones were '.....up North.....' without wooden grips
Ironically, seeing 'Mr Sterling' next week!