Eddystone P14

[pe4king]

I collected this little gem today, bought it cheap on line without as much a photo, but thought it would be worth a punt, to be honest I expected a right dog anyway it's a very early one ser ERA 11xxx all original as I far as I can tell, with the fat stock and volley sights so not been near Weedon, bore is good as well I have been after a nice one of these for years and too be honest this is the best one I have ever seen.
It is also stamped EY and has the .625" bolt lug
This isn't the photo I wanted ill try the better one later

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[BruceHMX]

Always nice when you find one that did not go through Weedon.

[pe4king]

this is the photo I wanted

[browningautorifle]

Well, it's nice enough all right. Are you going to clean the shiny finish off the wood? Nice to find some early features too...

[pe4king]

Yes the shiny stuff has to go, but I want to be very sympathetic with I as all of the stamps on the wood are almost as crisp as the day it was made, the early features were what made my decision to buy it from I'll sleep on it and let you know in the morning to a return phone call with my bank card at the ready lol

[CINDERS]

You should be able to procure a natural based stripper (water based clean up) that will not harm the wood and use a plastic scraper only bubba would use sandpaper to remove the shelac or varnish they just love to use that stuff.
Good luck nice looking rifle.

[pe4king]

It makes me cringe the thought of sandpaper near a rifle, gulp

[Aragorn243]

Citristrip, a toothbrush and a bathtub and that stuff will come right off. Spray it on, wait 15 minutes rinse it off and scrub the persistent stuff off with the brush. I've probably done 20 stocks like that.

[Surpmil]

Somewhere I read that about the first 60,000 Eddystone Remington Arsenal rifles were condemned as emergency use only. I saw a very similar one in the 20,000 range a year or two back here, also in very good original condition. I suppose Weedon had better things to do in 1940/41 than strip the long range sights off EY rifles.

[pe4king]

I'm led to believe that they were not actually condemned, they were taken out of service due to compatibility issues I.e. The bolt lug was .625" long and it should have been .725" long therefore the parts were not interchangeable so no good for front line service and hence being stamped EY and also escaping Weedon. Although I will stand corrected