This One Has Me Scratching My Head

[Surpmil]

Why would anyone go to that much trouble to fake a rifle that is only marginally more valuable than a regular No4?

And where does one find an Enfield examiner's stamp?

And a rifle with apparently no markings on the butt socket to provide the starting point...stretches the bounds of credulity somewhat IMO. They look like they were stamped yesterday, but then that's how newish rifles look, whether they're from 1947 or 1907.

No "TR" on the butt socket? I see the photo is cut off above where they might be.

I have an uncompleted 1944 M47C in the X35---- SN range, from which many, many No4(T)s came. It has both examiner's marks as this one does and the "S" and the "TR". Why uncompleted in 1944? Why both examiner's marks when one was supposedly applied on completion of the rifle? Why the "S"?

We're too late, that's all.