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Help with Identifying a No. 4 Mk. 1
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01-30-2018 06:56 PM
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Well it certainly went through 23 Base Workshops at some point (23 BW), which would have possibly been for a repair that was beyond a unit level armourer.
Peter Laidler will know better what the "probable" chain of events was with regards to the replacement serial number, but could it be that the rifle was issued by 23 BW to replace a rifle that was beyond repair, with this one having its serial number replaced with the one from the written off rifle?
Last edited by harry mac; 01-31-2018 at 08:11 AM.
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I have seen the serial number on the bottom of the buttstock on rifles formerly owned by Israel.
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Interesting looking older rifle...
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I'll also add that on the bottom of the forend, there is a "89L" and then what appears to be "8428" stamped underneath. I'm assuming that would be the rifle's original serial number before it had the wrist scrubbed and the "new" serial number stamped on the bottom of the stock and on the left side of the receiver.
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89L would certainly correspond to a 1945 produced rifle.
I might be wildly awry but I wouldn't have expected any self respecting Base Workshop personnel in the UK or any of the Commonwealth armed forces leaving the left side of the butt socket looking like that.
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I wouldn't have expected any self respecting Base Workshop personnel in the
UK or any of the Commonwealth armed forces leaving the left side of the butt socket looking like that.
I think it was John Q Public that defaced it...
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British mastery of understatement............
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