Daan asks - Did you check to see if it is possibly No 5 rifle?
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Daan -
As I said, it looks like a No.5. The gun has a curious combination of "right" and "wrong" features, so either it is a mix of No.5 and No.4 parts, or it is the work of an unusually conscientious faker. Maybe the following photos will contain something worth commenting on.

I removed the handguard, and the barrel does not have lightening flutes at the breech, so that settles it as not a No.5; however there is the proper amount of space (7 3/4 inches) between the barrel-band and the receiver.

The sight is wrong, being graduated to 1300 yards, but it has the right amount of daylight between it and the receiver.



The marking on the receiver appears right for a Fazakerley gun, but that's easy to fake.

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The lightening cuts at the rear of the receiver are there, but one of them is not milled perfectly straight and parallel to the wood.



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The receiver has a transverse cut (as for scope-mounting) over the rear of the chamber (and a big paint sag near the charger bridge).



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The socket has only the ENGLAND export mark, a couple of small broad arrrows, and some small marks I don't recognize.





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The trigger guard extension has the proper wasp-wasted shape.



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The bolt handle does not have the lightening hole in the knob. The bayonet lug has an angled notch on the right side. The front sight has M/470 on the left side and a broad arrow plus 4 cryptic Brit-marks on the right - sorry, no photo. No marks on the magazine (which doesn't fit well) except partially obliterated numbers and file marks, and no withdrawn-from-service double arrows anywhere.

-- David