2"mortar Mk2 lensatic sight.

[Topfmine]

How rare is the 2" mortar Mk2 lenstatic sight with case, is it in the same class and price as the
lensatic sight used on the Brengun.

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[browningautorifle]

We still have them in stores, they would be issued with the bipod and baseplate when changing our mortar over from hand held... So to me they aren't rare at all.

[Topfmine]

So how rare is the 2" mortar with the heavy base plate, all I have seen is the small base plate that looks like a short bit of angle iron. I thought this lensatic sight was discontinued when they changed to the spade plate design around about 1942-43. Then we just used a painted like on the tube. Are we talking about the same 2"mortar.

[browningautorifle]

So how rare is the 2" mortar with the heavy base plate

Again, I drew ours out of stores and gave lectures on the bipod/baseplate/sight kit. They weren't scarce at all. We used the same baseplate as the 81mm.

[Gil Boyd]

Which one??

[browningautorifle]

Which one??

Of course ours only vaguely resembles those...

[Gil Boyd]

Here you go Jim with the traditional sighting line missing

[Mk VII]

There were several different versions of the 2" mortar. Of the many different marks and sub-marks, only the one originally designed for airborne troops was left by the time it departed from service.

[browningautorifle]

Roger that Gil, ours is just a smidge different... Only one poor pic among this whole thing.

www.canadiansoldiers.com

[Topfmine]

The last picture or forth picture along is the base plate mortar that I am referring its use with a lensatic sight that was discontinued around 1942. The first picture is know as a spade plate mortar. The sight I am referring to has nothing to do with post war modern day 60mm mortars.