SMLE mounted troop rifle

[browningautorifle]

Very neat rifle. Hope it turns out to be real...we've not had one of those appear around here before.

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[bigduke6]

Very neat rifle. Hope it turns out to be real...we've not had one of those appear around here before.

It has been here before Jim, when I had it a few years back, but I returned it ( was another dealer back then), as it was sale or return.......

[jmoore]

It has been here before Jim, when I had it a few years back, but I returned it ( was another dealer back then), as it was sale or return.......

This thread?: (ETA: one of these links works but isn't fancy, the other doesn't seem to load correctly right now, but did when the search was done.)

SMLE Yeomanry or Light Horse conversion

[Thunderbox]

It has been here before Jim, when I had it a few years back, but I returned it ( was another dealer back then), as it was sale or return.......

Didn't it get pulled to bits in the forums back then? Indian nosecap, bits from several rifles, non-factory workmanship, copy of local sling bar mod, odd looking stamps, etc.

IIRC it was another example of a rare or imagined rifle that had been .. er ... recreated by an individual for his own collection. Specimens from that collection are now turning up with all sorts of "provenance" attached.



IIRC the nosecap is Indian. I have several of them in one of my spares boxes (unfortunately currently in storage). They appear factory made, not converted or refinished. The metal behind the missing bayonet boss is solid. Not much known about them, but possibly originally intended for prison muskets or similar.

[bigduke6]

Didn't it get pulled to bits in the forums back then? Indian nosecap, bits from several rifles, non-factory workmanship, copy of local sling bar mod, odd looking stamps, etc.

IIRC it was another example of a rare or imagined rifle that had been .. er ... recreated by an individual for his own collection. Specimens from that collection are now turning up with all sorts of "provenance" attached.



IIRC the nosecap is Indian. I have several of them in one of my spares boxes (unfortunately currently in storage). They appear factory made, not converted or refinished. The metal behind the missing bayonet boss is solid. Not much known about them, but possibly originally intended for prison muskets or similar.

It certainly did TB, and with that I returned it ( it was up North at the time) from the collection of the late Chris Barber...........

Jmoore that's the thread, SMLE Yeomanry or Light Horse conversion.

I received a email some years back regarding the rifle, someone had purchased it from who I returned it too, I gave him all the info I had and suggested to him to return it, he was in the mind set it was Kosher and said he had it confirmed from the IWM and others !!!! It has had a touch up since it was in my hands. I,ll dig out my pics.