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    1920 Lithgow FTR

    These are getting hard to come by. I just picked up today from a dealer....at $325 I couldn't take my hands off it. Regards, Rick.











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    Nice find. She's a beauty.
    What timber is the furniture? None of my lithgows look like that!

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    Nice find. She's a beauty.
    What timber is the furniture? None of my lithgows look like that!
    Hello Pablo. Coachwood. Regards, Rick.

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    Mine are all coachwood but nowhere near that colour.
    They're all a really dark (guess its 70 years of oil and crud) so I didn't realise coachwood started life that colour.
    Yours looks like it came out of the factory yesterday.
    Wish i could get atleast one of mines timber to that colour!

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    Mine is a very similar colour 1908 BSA MkIII, Lithgowicon FTR. Its parkerized and was restocked in coachwood.

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    I think when the went thtough FTR, the stocks were sanded and refinished which explains it's lighter color.....The 40 years of crud grease and grime wold have been removed. Here it is along side my 1920 in Queensland Maple and personally, I like it better as it is all original. The FTR is what it is. Regards, Rick.


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    Rick I don't think sanding and refinishing was a practice used in the Lithgowicon factory, however, during the FTR program in the 50's, butts were reused and any previous stamps were removed. It would most probably have had new forend and handguards at that time.
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    Rick I don't think sanding and refinishing was a practice used in the Lithgowicon factory, however, during the FTR program in the 50's, butts were reused and any previous stamps were removed. It would most probably have had new forend and handguards at that time.
    That's the way I understand it. 1957 is a pretty late FTR too. The forestock has had most of the cartouches removed also. Note it has a 1924 barrel date which seems unusual for a 57 FTR......they were probably using left over serviceable parts. There is a N.A. Co on the right side rear of action which I assume is a import mark and looks to have been un-issued after rebuild. Regards, Rick.

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    Rick Lithgowicon was FTR'ing SMLE's up until 1959 and recycling of parts was common practice including barrels.

    Nice guns.

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    Very nice rifle. I'm fairly new to the SMLE rifles. Did all the Austrailian rifles have their serial number stamped on the rear of the bolt handle like the English rifles? I would assume so.

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