Suncorite 259 was the standard baking paint used in Britishicon weapons production or FTR from sometime in 1944 onward unill just a few years ago when it finally became obsolete in MoD service.

Is that the deact proof on the left side of the butt socket?

One of the well known gunsmiths who deacts weapons for a living in Essex is visiting at the end of October. I'm going to put him to work removing the front halves of cut SMLE receivers from almost 400 DP SMLE barrels I have here awaiting export to be built into Deact rifles in the UK! I've already done 80 of them. We're trying to make the shipping as painless as possible by removing the dead weight but it's a lot of work. There is no surface shipping anymore and airfreight is horrendous.