EAL Type Longbranch Experts Weigh In

[Lee Enfield]

Awful lot of matching stamps if it's a shop run. Ross is on CGN Surpmil, taking offers lol.

So, to recap:

Matching stamps forestock and receiver.
Matching numbers bolt and receiver.
Broad arrow barrel with correct sights.
Buttstock marked 130/Broadarrow/MK1 -- an official marking.
All pieces, including magazine, Longbranch.
All woodwork EAL, but stamped with Longbranch marks.

I also have visual proof of a Longbranch serialed EAL mapping rifle, and visual proof of a mapping rifle issued with an identical '2' stamp; if die steel is as hard as I think it is, would it be likely to have many laying around?

My point is that if this is a Longbranch built civvy bitsa, where did they get EAL wood manufactured post Longbranch, and stamped with Longbranch marks, esp. MK1? There is a multi year gap.

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SS and proofs -- sold from service?
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Replicated on forestock
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Broad arrow on barrel
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It's just a case of EAL wood and barrel assembled onto an available No4MkI receiver, by "joe sixpack", not a/the factory...especially as the receiver isn't complete.

Not a big deal, one friend of mine has sold at least 2 1941 dated Long Branch receivers which were un-serial numbered...and never were...much like yours, in fact it might have come from the same source.

In my junk, I have spare complete stock sets for EAL "military" and EAL "commercial" varients...

I have an EAL with a destroyed receiver which I am just waiting for the right moment to transfer it's parts to an EAL receiver which came assembled (no not by the factory, I know who assembled it, and he is extremely active on CGNs Milsurp sales section and shows up here too) as a .22


If we want to continue playing fantasy games, I could assemble my EAL parts onto a Long Branch No4MkI*(T) receiver....hey it would be 100% Long Branch SAL/CAL and therefore correct right? It certainly would have military and factory inspectors stamped markings...