Photo of a Lanchester smg from a museum in London relating to the original finish.

[Peter Laidler]

I would imagine that the NMM gun was 'gifted' by the Royal Navy while the guns were still in service. Hence no sale mark

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[drm2m]

I suspect that the lanchester that I own is an earlier version than the Lanchester shown in the large museum photo above.

Namely, the curved cocking handle, and the tangent rearsight.
(The date marked on my gun is 1942.)


I contacted the Museum for two reasons;
-I was trying to find a photo that showed the original finish on these guns.
- And I was trying to find period photos of these guns.

What I have so far is the large photo shown above showing the finish on the gun that they have in the museum.

I have yet to approach them to see if they have any period photos of these Lanchesters.
That is my next step......they are hard to find.

David

[peregrinvs]

I would imagine that the NMM gun was 'gifted' by the Royal Navy while the guns were still in service. Hence no sale mark

Maybe, although as we've established the pictures are of two different guns, I was wondering if the NMM gun was one of the ex-Egyptian ones imported for the UK deact market in the early 1990's which they simply bought or were donated? My gun has the green paint(?) on the mag housing, but it has an Arabic Egyptian army marking that appears to have been stamped on prior to the paint being added.

[drm2m]

Shown below 1943 dated Lanchester magazine pouch with fifty round Lanchester magazines showing 'SECo' marked Sterling magazines.

David