New Sniper Toys Arrive

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New Sniper Toy(s) arrive with a surprise!

Two new toys arrived today via the UPS man.

First is a beat up No.15 transit chest. Rougher than I would like with one latch completely rusted away along with half the screws holding the leather handles. Reason for purchase??? If the handles do not give it away, the markings provided will. Yes it is a hard to find HCF 1945 chest. The "5" is barely visible and at first I thought it was a 3 due to the fact that the sniper content sheet inside is an early May 1943 dated example. Also this chest has some earlier visible stenciling:

WOL.ORD. 1/4573/15
DT.19.MAY 48

Second, what was in the chest. A 1942 Savage Mk I in used condition. Rifle has the S51 on the butt, but no other receiver markings seen on later conversions, but as one can see from the pic's at one time had a Kodak Mk I scope (6554) assigned to her. Later someone added the last 4 digits of the rifle s/n under the scope number. Forend is properly s/n'd to the rifle and the hand guards have the s/n penciled in underneith. To make her more rare/unusual is the fact that the ORIGINAL s/n'd TWO groove barrel is still installed. Thus one can assume it is a early conversion before H&H could be too picky! Unfortunately the rifle does have two faults, besides missing its scope. The worst is that the bolt is a force matched replacement and the second is that the forward screw to hold on the cheek piece is missing.

So does anyone have Scope #6554 with mount and can????

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