Hello,

I recently expanded my collection with a No1 MKIII. Its an Ishapore, dated 1915, and I thought Id share some details in order to get some questions answered and some possible restoration suggestions. It was imported by century and came with the original manual and certificate from them. It was caked in grease instead of cosmolineicon and while its in a MKIII* stock set, its only marked MKIII and it has the openings for installation of the cutoff. Its all matching except for the bolt body (weirdly, the arm on the adjustable sight SN is marked through and a new one to make it matching was added). With this being said I had some questions:

1. Was the scratching through and re-numbering common, if so has it been thorough more than one refit.

2. On the bolt head extractor arm is written BA45, what does this mean? Also the bolt body has a H and a C after the s/n, what does that mean??

3. Should I have it restored??

(Ill post pics tomorrow)

Bernard Simon
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