No. 4T questions

[Roger Payne]

Hi Ridolpho,
Sorry, but I posted the above reponse a bit prematurely, before I noticed JM Peter & Surpmil had dealt with things pretty comprehensively!
However, the indexing mark is always a useful thing to bear in mind when looking at purported original 4T's. You will generally find two enfield examiner's marks - more often than not one either side of the bolt way. IIRC there will be a crown E7E which I have always believed to be the mark of the examiner at the BSA factory. Usually on the other side, you will more often than not (though by NO MEANS ALWAYS) find the crown D6E of H&H. As mentioned before though, this is not invariable & is often not present on earlier conversions. It may sound weird, but I have owned several early (1941 dated) rifles that bore the D6E on the KNOX. I have never seen any reference to this anywhere, but I have seen more than one.

If the barrel is original (highly unlikely) you will find it bears an indexing mark at 6 o'clock, mating up to the indexing mark on the front lower body.

I don't recall seeing the serial configuration like yours on other 1943 dated rifles. Looking at the butt socket the stamping is a mess & looks to be double stamped - possibly how the '1' in between the A's got there. The more usual serial configuration would have been an 'A' followed by another letter from the alphabet (in this case another A) followed by a four digit number.

I would have said the number on the butt was the scope number & was indicative of an REL scope, as the number ends with a C. However, REL never made anything like three thousand odd scopes, so I'm afraid I don't know where that leaves us!

If it shoots well, came with a functional No32, & didn't cost too much, then I guess you've still done ok!

ATB