Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk I (T)

[Giove]

What do you think about the S.N. on the wrist?
It seems to me a bit odd: too high on the wrist and with a circle around every digit.

Scope is a Mk 3 with eye-shade (??).

Giancarlo

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[Roger Payne]

The circle is there as each of the digits has been whacked in fairly firmly & so the circular rim of the punch has left its mark. This is common. I wouldn't want to venture an overall opinion on the rifle though, not without seeing more photo's & various different views. Odd that someone has fitted a shade to a Mk3 scope......

[Giove]

Thank you Roger.
I asked for more pictures. The other pics I have are the following:

[Giove]

Odd the Mk 3 scope with the eye-shade, but I have pics of another Mk 3 (III) with shade, from another maker (?):

[Roger Payne]

I think everything is genuine, but I cannot quite make out the serial on the bracket & the rifle's serial. Are they matching? Again, I can't be certain from the first photo, but is the scope number the only one on the wrist? I'm not quite sure if there could be traces of a number possibly above the obvious one. Can't tell for certain - I may be imagining it!

I don't think the shade means much. I doubt any Mk3's left the factory with them on; probably the result of civvy ownership, or perhaps indicative non-Commonwealth government usage??

[Giove]

The owner says it's all matching.

Even to me seems to be a number below the S.N., for this reason (as well as the circles around the digits) I had doubts about the originality of the S.N. printed on the wrist.

[Roger Payne]

What you really need are some close up & detailed photo's of this area. Otherwise the rifle, scope & bracket all look genuine enough, but you need to know if it's 'originally matching' or if it has been re-matched, due to the value implications.

[Giove]

The owner should send me more pics in the week end.

[Giove]

Other pics:

[Gil Boyd]

Like Roger says, It all looks perfectly correct, sleep tight in the knowledge its the real deal from the photos you show.