Just purchased my first Lee Enfield and had a couple of questions about it. It is a 1943 No4 Mk1* Long Branch. I purchased it as a numbers matching rifle but after having taken it apart and cleaned it I highly doubt it. Nothing against the seller as when I received it there was green paint, black paint and lots of old hard grease on it from the years and the numbers did appear to match. I was told that the rifle had seen service in India. Now that it is clean I have found a second set of numbers on fore-end and magazine. Also the last two numbers on the bolt appear to be newer. They are brighter in the picture because a had to scrape them more to get the green paint out of the grooves. Also, on it there is a stamp "RB 2/47". Would this be for a rebuild in February, 1947? Could the numbers have been added / changed in '47 when it was rebuilt? Also, with the bolt it looks like the numbers may have just been re-stamped. Would they have done that during a rebuild if the numbers were not stamped well or very visible?

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Thanks,
Mike
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