1941 Long Branch

[spinecracker]

Comments would be appeciated regarding the serial number on the bolt handle. It does look like it has been put on by a drunken monkey, but could that have been done that badly at Long Branch? I am assuming that it is a replacement bolt until proven otherwise -if it was replaced, then it was done very early as the hole in the bolt handle knob is present, and so is the early cocking piece (a later replacement would have been a later type, surely?). I looked closely at the digits, and the last digit "2" is in the exact same font as the serial number on the buttsocket. Opinions, please!

Also, what about the "broad arrow" on the left of the cocking piece?? Looks like they used a centre punch to mark that.