So, it would appear to be an Israeli mark, you reckon? An acceptance mark perhaps?

Yes, Bri, re the 4T's we're on the same page. Lots of the Savage conversions are indeed less Telescope rifles as you say, & I suspect more Mk1* rifles than Mk1's. However some Mk1*'s were definitely scoped up - there were several in the big batch we bought twenty years ago - I still own one of them. Peter often said that you stick your neck out when writing a book or a magazine article because there's always someone who has that extra snippet of information that you didn't know. I did tell him when he was preparing the book that I thought there were a few Savage Mk1*'s converted, but I think he thought I'd been taken in by fakes. I don't mind about that - they were not well known then, but once the book appeared more collectors provided him with similar observations, & so these rifles became accepted. Just shows why popular books run to more than one edition!
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