Quote Originally Posted by newcastle View Post
You know what I would really like, and that would be the experience of whoever rediscovered these rifle in the crate and saw them for the first time. I think it highy unlikely that these have been known of for all this time, with somone waiting for the rigth time to sell. Someone recently got to open a box and say "Bloody hell. Look what we have here. This is amazing". similar to the thrill of finding an in the wrap No.4 in the back roon of a gunstore or a No.1 Mk 5 in with a bunch of No.1 Mk3's. To a certain extent, the internet , with all the knowledge it has made available to us would be collectors, has also at the same time denied many of us the chance to make finds like this.
This could be the case.

There was a lithgow advertised on usedguns in Australiaicon recently and I was told by the seller who is in very poor health that many years ago he was doing a building inspection for an elderly gentlemen when he discovered a large wooden crate in the ceiling space. Turns out it contained he thinks eight lithgows one of which the elderly gent gave him. It was covered in grease and he only fired 20 rounds through it recently before he sold it. Something he wanted to do before he dies.

That's what he told me anyway. Good story.