Lee Enfield markings

[jmoore]

Found this one as a comparative sample but it's only a two letter job:

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[Patrick Chadwick]

Found this one as a comparative sample but it's only a two letter job:

Well I though the markings on my Mosin-Nagant "snaipr" looked as if they were clobbered on by a Stakhanovite worker who over-achieved his quota with the help of generous quantities of high-percentage fuel. But those markings make the Mosin look sober. Maybe the tea was too strong? Or perhaps they stood on the other side of the workshop and threw the punches at the rifle? Note that the first stamping was so b--- awful that someone was driven to try it again, a bit more legibly.

[jmoore]

But those markings make the Mosin look sober. Maybe the tea was too strong? Or perhaps they stood on the other side of the workshop and threw the punches at the rifle?

Better than early forties Fazackerlys....


ROF
12/42
(Serial # on this one was reapplied, as the first go with the electropencil vanished.)

[gerard488]

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[gerard488]

Could there be a connection between Force Publique (Monaco). and the FPM marks on my rifle?

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For the Monagasque Force Publique, see Force Publique (Monaco).
The Force Publique (French for "Public Force") was a gendarmerie and military force in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1885, (when the territory was known as the Congo Free State), through the period of direct Belgian colonial rule (1908 to 1960). After independence, the FP was retitled as the Congolese National Army or ANC.
During World War II (1939-1945), the Force Publique provided detachments to fight the German and Italian forces during the East Africa Campaign and in the Middle East. Belgium surrendered to Germany on 28 May 1940. With Belgium occupied, the contribution to the Allied cause by the Free Belgian Forces from the Belgian Congo was primarily an economic one. However the Force Publique grew to 40,000 in the course of the War, formed into three brigades, a river force and support units.[5