Faux Enfield wierdness

[Surpmil]

These have shown up before and were a legit project that Savage proposed to the UK during WWI, if I remember correctly. Someone has stuck a No4 magazine in it and it looks like Savage made some changes to their magazine cutoff design considering the let-in piece of wood in that area of the stock.

Presumably it is front-locking simplified Mauser type action. Were it cock-on-closing it would be quite a practical rifle combining some of the best features of the SMLE and P14, which was no doubt the intention of the designers.

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[Cottage Hill Bill]

These have been discussed in detail on some other forums. They were found a couple of years ago and purchased for about 1/10 the current asking price. Consensus from that other discussion was that they were what they are advertised as. Skennerton is aware of them as are most of the other very serious collectors.

[krinko]

First time I heard of these was one "found in a stack of junk in a gunshop", six or seven or eight or nine years ago----it might even have been on the old Gun&Knife Forum.......that would be the Pleistocene Era, in Internet Years.
They all seem to be incomplete and are not improved by the forced addition of a No4 magazine.
-----krinko