" Its been in the same hands for the last 10 years, and belonged to a friend of his for 10 years before that, so, it should pre-date all of the 4T shenanigans that have been going on with 4Ts."
Just remember Forgery has been around since the Romans were knocking out greek sculptures as originals.
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So true, but my point was that (say) 20 years ago the 4T had a value of how much ? £100 ?? more ? less ?
Not a lot anyway, so I question if anyone would have had the incentive to 'mess about with it'
Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...