A Query For The Collector Minded

[SpikeDD]

Gentleman....

As a collector, I have always been interested in the obvious, as well as the not so obvious, anomalies associated with rifle production. Flipping through the List Of Changes can be a dangerous read for a brain that works as mine does.

To The Point...

February 2, 1916 was the "official" date to adopt the (*) for the Mk.III which, as most of us are aware, translated to some feature omissions to speed up production among various other reasons. Over the years, I have acquired a couple of examples of 1915 dated MK.III* rifles of both BSA and Enfield production which seem to have "jumped the gun" on the production omissions. I have seen a few others so I know they are out there, my question is, how many? I'm thinking if they jumped the gun a few months early the numbers may liken to the SSA-NRF numbers but that is just a guess.

Without going crazy, and if you have an interest to do so, I would be interested to see some serial numbers for the 1915 dated Mk III* rifles from BSA/Enfield. At the same time, as there was "officially" 1 month of production in 1916 for the Mk.III, I would be interested to see any serial numbers for 1916 dated Mk.III's from BSA/Enfield.

Thank you for any interest.

David

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