Strange (To Me) LB No.4 MK I Rear Sight

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Was in a local pawn shop today & looked @ a very-well-used but "kinda okay" 1943 Long Branch No.4 MK I rifle w/no obvious import marks. This rifle's rear sight is of a pattern I've never seen before, altho I'll grant that my experience is rather limited. The sight is the early micrometer type, but rather than the normal screw-type" adjustment, it had spring-loaded pivoting "ears" on either end of the ranging bar. ( I hope I'm explaining this in an understandable form) The ears were curved & pivoted @ their inner attaching points on the bar, & were meant to be squeezed together, just like the normally encountered tabs, except that they could (altho I don't know why you would want to) be operated independantly of each other. They were also spring-loaded. Anyone here ever seen one like this? TIA, guys, f/any info you may have.

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