Authentic or Fakes?

[mrclark303]

It's curious, a lot of Carbine parts I get my hands on in the UK come from France and Italy, Walnut and beech stocks etc.

I would think the availability of early parts would largely depend on how many early Carbines were left in Europe after WW2.

My understanding is that virtually the entire stock went through post war rebuild in the US and large quantities of these went back to Europe under the Marshall program.

Why would poor foreign operators bother sourcing the parts and upgrading donated rifles to the latest spec when they worked perfectly well in the first place?

It also begs the question of what happened to all those push button safeties, type 1 and 2 bands and L flip sights, considering they were made in the millions!

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[browningautorifle]

It also begs the question of what happened to all those push button safeties, type 1 and 2 bands and L flip sights, considering they were made in the millions!

When parts came off rifles in the military they have been superseded and have no further value. No one up in the armorers shop see's value and they have no where to store them anyway. They just go into the garbage. I remember seeing carbines here in the '70s that had all the early features, that was long after the rebuild program after WW2. Push safeties, flip sights, "I" cut stocks...type one bands, flat bolts. That was just what you could see...without stripping. This was in the pawn shops in Vancouver and we went over some weekends on shopping trips looking for carbines. They were there by the rack full, Lever arms and Century arms were moving them at the time.