Another Lee Enfield Sniper

[Giove]

It isn't real impossible to distinguish an original (Italian) from a fake.

Here an original (non mine). Note the Smle magazine.

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[Giove]

and a fake (not mine, fortunately). Only the scope is authentic.

[Surpmil]

It isn't real impossible to distinguish an original (Italian) from a fake.

Here an original (non mine). Note the Smle magazine.

Sorry my friend, IMHO that is not an original in any respect except that it is an "original" Lee Enfield Rifle and an "original" Italian made(?) scope. The difference in finish between the pads and rifle shows the pads were put on very recently and have certainly not been on there since the early 1950s when the Italians were purportedly making up their own No32 MkII scopes and No4(T)s.

Why they would have is a mystery to me, since the Mk3 was so much better and simpler to make... To say nothing of the numerous optically superior scopes available long before then.

There was a previous photo of a rifle overhauled - or was it made - in the UK in 1955. Are we really to believe that this was then shipped out to Italy in time to join their purported No4(T) conversion program, but never got a proper uniform finish applied in the process?

Those wonderfully skilled artisans who have been producing superb art "fakes" in Italy for centuries would laugh at such an amateurish attempt. They who can age a marble bust well enough to fool experts, what would they say about mismatching finishes and clean screw slots?

Really, we have a right to expect better from a country of so many talents!

[Giove]

This is surely original (unfortunately not mine); I saw it from life.