Bolt is stamped on the underside, "W", so it appears a factory original bolt and not a replacement.

Well the discussion of this rifle has certainly got the blood pressures up of some of our good members here.......well at least all the work of figuring out how to post pictures etc., was not done in vain.....it seems to have been the hot topic of the day to which I'm grateful for. LOL.
Guys I thank you all for your input and it's not always easy trying to figure the in's and out's of old collectible rifles especially when everyone thinks they have the million dollar rifle only to be told by another it's worth only two bucks.
I understand that's not the case here......I didn't think this rifle was a million dollar rifle nor was I told it was only worth two bucks......let's get that straight!!

Oldfoneguy I felt that I was part recipient of your rant today that was directed at Promo as I believe you were responding to his previous post, you were referring to the the rifle owner and that's me not Promo that's me Bros. Anyhow that's fine takes a bit more than that to get my hackles standing up. I don't think Promo and certainly I meant no disrespect to you in our respective discussions with you regarding this particular rifle. You refer to "because you read it in a book" well speaking for myself books are the only means of research I have other than the Net but anybody can post anything they want on there, books at least.... we can be quite certain that the author would have made a fairly comprehensive study on the subject otherwise what would be the point. Anyhow I certainly learned a few things from this thread.

I also put my foot in my mouth a few times especially questioning Stratton's interpretation of the Maltese cross and that's a bit still unclear but late last night I read parts of Skennertonicon's book on the US Enfield and his mirror's Stratton's interpretation, that it refers to "emergency use only". I'm still wondering why in the same war the Maltese Cross was used in the rifle building/re-building process with entirely different meanings and I know that newly manufactured Long Branch produced snipers left the factory with the stamp of the Maltese Cross indicating the use of "nonstandard parts", in this case a Savage manufactured rear sight on a Long Branch sniper rifle, that certainly has an entirely different meaning than "emergency use only".

Anyhow one of the main things questions I was trying to have answered in this thread was "once a MK1 rifle left the factory did it always stay a MK1 or in the Weedon process were MK1 rifles upgraded to MK1* as well......I think it's safe to say that during the Weedon process rifle's were not upgraded to MK1*........but I'm going to re-read all the posts just to make sure I've got that right so don't hit me over the head with the hammer just yet!!!!!

A well respected member here also told me that Melvin Johnson who made the 1941 Johnson rifle re-barreled a whole pile of P14 rifles and if memory serves me correct they are stamped on the breech.....possibly underneath with a "J A C" stamp I believe.....I will check that out in due time, but that's a topic for a different day.
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