Posting for a friend known to some of us. He bought this sight in the UK. It was found with a large quantity of surplus No4 backsights.
Interesting points are that the elevation wheel is SM41 marked, as is the slide, but the sight body is not.
There was probably a leaf spring with pressed in projections to match the detents on the windage wheel. Presumably this spring would have been screwed to the side of the rifle body.
The windage wheel appears to be too far from the backsight ear for there to have been a hole drilled with a detent plunger or ball and spring.
The elevation wheel has been made smaller and a small area milled out of the top left side of the sight body to allow the sight to fold down while adjusted to the left or right of center.
Has anyone seen reference to a sight like this? Could it be related to the experiments with windage adjustable backsights for No4(T)s?Information
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