Long Branch serial number listing

[evang]

1950 LB No 4 Mk 1*
s/n 98L5846, matching bolt, mongrel mag
C#3 vernier backsight
All blued, steel buttplate
All birch furniture, grooved handguard, all stamped S
Sling swivel band also S

No FTR markings - might it have acquired Savage furniture at a depot?

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[browningautorifle]

might it have acquired Savage furniture at a depot

As Peter and some others have repeatedly pointed out, if a rifle went in for work and needed wood, it would get a mostly matching set of whatever happened to be available. Matching was the criteria...the markings not a concern. These have been around now idle mostly for decades and that wood could have come from anywhere since. The Greeks used them for instance in a serious war, although short, in the '60's and again in the '70's. They'd have used whatever replacement parts they could get.

[Lee Enfield]

1950 LB No 4 Mk 1*
s/n 98L5846, matching bolt, mongrel mag
C#3 vernier backsight
All blued, steel buttplate
All birch furniture, grooved handguard, all stamped S
Sling swivel band also S

No FTR markings - might it have acquired Savage furniture at a depot?

If you look closely your serial number is probably 93L5846

Long Branch serial numbers topped out at approx. 96L0000 (highest documented is 96L0012).

[limpetmine]

It may well have acquired Savage wood at the factory. Long Branch and Savage were known to share component parts when there was a choke point in production. And when Savage shut down in 1944, their excess stock of parts went to LB.

1950 LB No 4 Mk 1*
s/n 98L5846, matching bolt, mongrel mag
C#3 vernier backsight
All blued, steel buttplate
All birch furniture, grooved handguard, all stamped S
Sling swivel band also S

No FTR markings - might it have acquired Savage furniture at a depot?