Linley co 20 round magazine

[Lance]

One just sold last week at auction. I cannot remember the final price but it was way north of $1000

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[Nigel]

There is one of these in the Warminster collection. I've got some pictures on my desktop PC but it was quicker to go online. The mag is the 20 round SMLE mag. I once owned one of the leather pouches which held a single mag but swapped it for a No.2 MkIV.

[breakeyp]

For some strange reason, I don't have pictures of my magazine and leather carrier. For what it is worth, the leather carrier only holds one magazine.

[lithgow1918]

For some strange reason, I don't have pictures of my magazine and leather carrier. For what it is worth, the leather carrier only holds one magazine.

A leather carrier just sold for £350 on some militaria site and I saw pictures of it. It was tempting but other things called.

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One just sold last week at auction. I cannot remember the final price but it was way north of $1000

Yeah, they keep going up. At one point apparently, they would go up on eBay with relative frequency, but it seems they have all fallen into collections at this point. I'd love to have one, but realistically the most I can spend on one now is like $500.

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Years ago they had one at Alfred J Parker's; I tried to prize it off Ma but she wasn't having it, as it was part of the family collection (mostly stuff that her father had amassed). At the end, when we got into the place with her niece & great nephew, it had disappeared along with a lot of other stuff. It may simply have been sold off to some lucky punter after Edna's death, when the shop was run for, but not by, her great niece. A lot of items were sold off then, & often at far lesser prices than Edna would have accepted!

I thought I read somewhere that the 20 rounders were ordered to be destroyed at some point following WW1, perhaps after being found unsuitable for the VB or derivative.......

That's the main story I have heard. About the vb thing. The thing is I have yet to see a full picture of one so it's hard to say. One strange thing is that most of the survivors I have seen are in realtivly good condition. My suspicion is that most of them come from the 30,000 sent to weedon that were never issued. Although that's just speculation based on the few I've seen. Frankly I'd put my estimate of number in the collectors market at closer to 15 at it's height, with some having been taken by museums since.

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Anybody have any ideas of making a 20 rounder from two magazines? I would love to have one for my shooting competitions.

If I were to attempt it, I might go the route of adapting a Vickers berthier magazine. It coul totally not work, but I've never heard of anyone trying. Apparently been mags aren't easy to covert.

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There is one of these in the Warminster collection. I've got some pictures on my desktop PC but it was quicker to go online. The mag is the 20 round SMLE mag. I once owned one of the leather pouches which held a single mag but swapped it for a No.2 MkIV.

Thank you so much for the pictures. I've been wondering the model for ages. I am relatively new to the whole collecting thing, and I really appreciate everyone's willingness to help.