Pic of odd No.4 Mk1(T)

[breakeyp]

This 1943 Shirley No.4 Mk1(T) is annoying for several reasons.

1. The bayonet lugs have been removed from the barrel and machined area reblued.
I remember it said this was done for imports to some country. What country?

2. The buttstock is ZF marked with paint and a stamp. I pulled the buttstock and it is not original to the gun. It does not have a number on the wood socket and there is no scope number on the top of the wrist. The butt and forestock are not original to the gun and the forestock has no serial number. Therefore is the ZF pertinent to this gun or the one the wood was removed from? Why two sets of ZF markings? Visual and functional check of the receiver seems acceptable. The receiver has the normal T and TR markings.

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