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I cannot find the documents I thought I had, but I'm pretty sure they were made obsolescent (not obsolete) after WW1

Obsolescent - will continue in use but will not be replaced when broken...

The 'problem' with discussing how to differentiate fakes / repros from originals is that we are telling the bad-guys to to make their fakes indistiguishable from the originals. Its a difficult...

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What makes me dubious about Roger's 'crows foot' is that all of the crows foot marking I have seen have had the 'toes' as single lines, whilst this one is like an outline drawing (two...

I have heard of, but never seen the French Reproductions (the J&P ones are manufactured in the Phillipines) your pictures meet the description I have had of the French repros, particularly the crows...

This is the text from the advert of one of the repro-sellers :

PLEASE NOTE; Although these covers would offer little resistance to a bullet and it is likely that in emergencies many rifles were...

I have seen documents that have said they were maker unmarked, and have said they were maker marked.
Both were non-original(MOD) documents, just collectors summaries ie :


The 'Flanders Flap'...

There are a lot of reproductions in Europe, there is a French company making them and a UK company having them made in the Phillipines.

The UK company are honest in their descriptions (on ebay)...

Well "sort of in use"

On my 'one of a kind' SMLE with parts from (almost) every continent.

It does seem odd - I would not have though that a great number survived when records suggest that only 200,000 of the steel version were manufactured.

The 'Flanders Flap' were manufactured during...