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    Quote Originally Posted by Garandy View Post
    Forend caps are marked CE1967,


    The "CE1967" furniture was made in 1967 in the UKicon for (allegedly) a contract with SA which was never fulfilled (apparently due to Apartheid and sanctions)

    The CE is for C E Welstead who made the metal components (wartime code S126) for the No4 rifles as their original business was the manufacture of metal framed window systems. They closed down in 1973.
    I do not know who produced the actual 'wood' parts, or assembled them.

    There have been 'thousands' of these 'sets' floating about in the UK & I have bought and sold 100s of these 'sets' over the years - my last 4 sets going to the 'Klondike' just last year'

    I was fortunate enough to find a warehouse full of stillages of these and could select the individual parts to be all 'colour / grain matched', and could choose the L length butt (more suitable for todays 'modern man' LoP) and another carton full of the metalwork.
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    Last edited by Alan de Enfield; 12-26-2021 at 04:13 AM.
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