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Originally Posted by
5thBatt
same serial number
Is there a letter or X prefix or suffix?
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02-16-2015 07:17 PM
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Is there a letter or X prefix or suffix?
The NZ
contract No8s had a DA prefix, mine are both DA156
I have posted them here before so you should be able to find them though my profile.
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Two with DA 156..... That's amazing. How on earth did you fall into them? We did have Mk5 Sten guns that all had the serial number as M78 as I recall but that was because the blanket stackers at Ordnance issued them by the manufacturers code on the magazine housing.
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So you got 156, 156 and 1567! Amazing. David Howroyd told me that they found a mistake/duplication in an export L2A3 gun order. That caused a bit of confusion but it was 'corrected by the clever alteration of one of the figures (say, a 1 into a 4 or so.....) when a similar number was due to be engraved. Difficult because the numbers were engraved VERY deep to avoid 'tampering'
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Just thank yourself you don't live on my side of the great southern land. Being in possession of 2 x firearms with same markings! good god no! the firearms lic dept. here would probably storm your house at gun point, confiscate the lot and throw you in a dark dungeon 
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The font of the marking is exactly the same too, same spacing and dropped "A". Including the same exaggerated space between the "1" and the "5". Same pantograph did both I'd think. Probably same man too...
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Hey......., can you imagine the scenario...... The panto operator and his pal discussing the little blonde in the cash office and operator slips the 6 back into the table runners instead of 8 after he engraved rifle 157. Glad the little blonde in the cash office couldn't hear what he was saying after that...............
Hands up anyone who HASN'T stamped a number or letter upside down........
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Possibly after a 2-3 pint lunch?
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