Highest known Sterling L34A1 - Mk5 ?

[Lee Enfield]

1597 US "pre-86" Dealer Sample, ARS https://dealernfa.com/shop/mkv-sterl...r-xs1597-1597/
Attachment 118019
and now very close to 1600 serials before the "S" prefix was added

[Lee Enfield]

started adding replacement photos

[Lee Enfield]

US "Dealer's Sample" former Singapore Police "SPF 33" (marked on bottom of mag well)
POST-86 DEALER SAMPLE






S2238 Mk5, Pistol Grip dated 1972 (bolt date hidden) https://www.gunbroker.com/item/983263982

Sienna Armory LLC

[browningautorifle]

Yep, they're sure neat. I only handled one years ago but it makes you want one.

[Lee Enfield]

Centrefire automatic silenced submachine gun - Sterling Patchett Mk.5 (L34A1), skeleton (about 1967-1993) - Royal Armouries collections

S3906 from the Royal Armouries collection

[Bartok5]

Ressurrecting this thread from the dead to show my "sort of" MK5, although the correct designation is actually Mk IV. There were apparently only 13 of these specifically manufactured in a special run for Peter Wilke of Ontaria Gun and Tackle, a prolific Canadian dealer in military surplus firearms and associated exotica/raffica back primarily during the 1980s. They are a semi-automatic-only, closed-bolt gun, built on a Mk 5 Receiver, to include the 3 Alignment/End-Cap threaded Rods. There are no internals (Mesh, Spiral Diffuser, etc) as the barrel runs the length of the Suppressor Casing to project just past the End-Cap. The right side of the Trigger Housing is engraved "Sterling, England" over top of "O.G.T. Canada" to denote the special run between Sterling and Wilke.

[Lee Enfield]

Sterling SMG 9mm Supressed (L34A1/Mk.5) | cgfirearms

Live Mk5 for sale in the UK

Serial # 297

[nzl1a1collector]

L34A1 S3800 is in NZ, I got to handle it the other day. New condition, what a lovely piece of kit I think the bolt is dated 1985

[browningautorifle]

what a lovely piece of kit

They are. Makes you immediately want to go shooting.

[Peter Laidler]

Talking of the Singapore Police. We used to be the Base Workshop facility for them and the Inspector that we dealt with was a Mr Soliano. He was always pretty good to us, taking one or two of us into Singapore when we were dowwn from 'up-country' for various reasons, the main one being WORP's - or War Office Repair Programmes. The first L34's I ever saw were the New Zealand Army ones that were landed there and soon afterwards, th local SPF police ones. These were commercial ones with hand grips and if I remember correctly, small rubber disposable buffers in the return spring cap.

The NZ Army ones were '.....up North.....' without wooden grips

Ironically, seeing 'Mr Sterling' next week!