L42A1 current value?

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Yes sometimes its eye catching when done like that, but if the rifle has good clean blonde wood now, I would leave it as it was.
My L42 was written off during the Falklands War and brought back to life by Peter Laidler on return to the UK, so one has to assume Peter changed the wood when the new action was fitted, he can't remember it individually as I have asked him as he must have dealt with thousands of them over the years.
So my view would be leave it as it was with all its patina and knocks......blonde is blonde!

I would agree with you, but I don't think it was Peter nor any other armourer who had sanded the stock of this rifle to make it blonde since they either would replace it or leave it as it is. So when looking at this rifle again the stock was cleaned post being withdrawn from service by a private individual. And my simple suggestion was to "repair" what bubba had done to it since in my opinion it detracts value.