Thanks chaps. Good to see you're unanimous on the course of action to be taken. It's kind of what I'd hoped you might say. I'm going to auction about 25 of these pieces, but have decided to keep back four; two BSA 39 MKIII's, a BSA 28 MkIII*, & the 36 Ishapore. I might stand a chance of getting four rebuilt, but not thirty......!

I'll check the barrel markings later - can't remember for sure, but I think it's probably the original barrel on it.

I sometimes wonder what other little gems may have been on the pile in the warehouse when I got these. I bought about forty, but there was over a thousand barreled actions in there.