No4 and No1 cutaway rifles

[Calfed]

Do you know what it sold for???

Wonderfull pieces!!!
Thanks for posting these great pics.
I love these cutaway rifles as educational material.
They would fit in any Enfield collection( specially in mine). Can you tell a price and where, when they were sold?

The No4 went for $310 and the No1 went for $300 at an auction back in Virginia. Unfortunately, no internet sales on this auction.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

The No4 went for $310 and the No1 went for $300 at an auction back in Virginia. Unfortunately, no internet sales on this auction.

I would have paid more for either rifle. Probably not wise from an investment standpoint but I find them that interesting. Is it just me?

[tlvaughn]

I would have paid more for either rifle. Probably not wise from an investment standpoint but I find them that interesting. Is it just me?

It is not just you, I would have jumped all over the No4, especially considering it is a Savage.

[limpetmine]

These are on my want list as well. They have a place in a collection to be sure.

[Peter Laidler]

Just a funny little aside to the apprentices test pieces. I furtively rummaged through large bin that contained a load of old skeletonised Sterling trigger mechanisms, cut from old gun casings and destined for scrap and found a particularly good one, sectioned by my friend BIG JOHN Hessell who, even though he was only 16 or so, was already 6'4" tall - and proportionaltely well hung I was informed by big Benda, his girlfriend. Naturally, he wanted his so I told him to have a furtive look for mine in the same bin but presumably someone had nicked that - so I kept his! After all, you couldn't go running bleating to the instructors. He did get an old half decent example and titivated it up a bit but I kept his superb and greatly admired 100% perfect example. He never forgot and many years later he mentioned it again. I didn't tell him that in the meantime the carpenter had mounted it on a nice oak board and I mischeviously displayed it as my work! Much adsmired, it now resides in a display case at the Small Arms School at Warminster. The dastardly secret is out!