Vintage Item found in my No.4 Mk1

[spacemonkey333]

So I am very new to the Lee Enfield owner's community. I don't know how often this happens to people so please don't flame me for starting this thread.

I was examining my newly acquired Enfield for markings when I came across something odd. I noticed some type of paper with writing on it through the split between the top pieces and bottom pieces of my forearm stock. I removed the top part of the stock to find something really cool and interesting, at least it is in my opinion. There are pieces of cut-up vintage cereal boxes under the stock and around the barrel. So far, I have found pieces from Post Toasties, Raisin Bran and an old Diamond matches box maybe? There are more under the barrel,but I havent gotten to them yet. Anyways, after some digging online, I dated the Post Toasties box pieces to 1958. I am just assuming that the rest are from that time as well. My questions about this are:

1) How many of you enfield owners have ran into something like this?
2) I am assuming these were used as shims to make the stock fit more tightly?
3) Should I leave them there and do you think something like this increases the value of the gun at all?
4) I know these are silly questions to some of you, but I think that it is pretty amazing that this rifle may not have had the stock removed since 1958!?

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