Here Is A Date You Don't See on a Long Branch Cno7

[stencollector]

Literally........

I have a 1953 dated example (along with the usual 44, 45 and 46 dates) and have seen photos of 51 dated examples, but I have never seen this date. It has not been scrubbed....it never had the date added.

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[breakeyp]

I imagine it is one of the receivers sold during the Long Branch auction and later assembled into a full rifle There were postings on this several years ago.

[stencollector]

It is one of the standard scrubbed serial receivers from the Canadian Supply system that made it onto the market in the past decade, so it actually was a rifle in Canadian service at one point. I'm not big on the scrubbed guns, but the lack of a date made it a must have for the collection. Now I need to find a 51 dated example.

[breakeyp]

I saw a new LB .22 no date receiver in the cardboard box for sale at this week end Ohio Gun Collectors show. $100 seems steep.

[stencollector]

I would have paid that for it as a curiosity.

[A square 10]

i love it when ya-all post these and explain them so nicely , i did not realize there were 50s models , ive only seen the 40s and only owned a couple 45s , it looks like a really nice rifle

[Surpmil]

I've heard of at least one retired armourer who has a large stock of parts and assembles C No.7s. In fairness, no one thought much about this 25 or more years ago, when interest and values were much lower, and for someone who has taken hundreds of them apart and put them back together again, they probably take on the same aura as a lawnmower, a bicycle or at best a restorable collector car.