No5 Jungle Carbine

[Gil Boyd]

domain,
Often something gives you a feel for fakerism, was it purely the O missing that gave you it on this occasion, or something else?
It looks like a hard earned NO5 that has been through the jungles and authentic to me.
Price £650 ish if the bore is sound IMHO

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[k8vf]

Isn't the barrel too long for a Mk V?

[browningautorifle]

Isn't the barrel too long for a Mk V?

No. It's a No. 5 not a Mk 5...the barrel is correct.

[Badger]

Hi ...

You might want to try the Google CSE custom search engine located in the top right corner where it says "Search Milsurps.Com"

For example, in your case, type in the words fake jungle carbine and see what happens ..

I only had a quick look and there's hundreds of threads.

Perhaps there's information contained there that may be helpful.

Regards,
Doug

[Patrick Chadwick]

Could this No5 be a fake that was converted from something else??? All the serials match but its missing the "o" from "ROF(f)".

Relax! The "handwriting" looks genuine enough. The space for the "O" is there. I think someone just made a mistake with the stencil and missed out the "O". Otherwise, it seems to be a very nice example of a No. 5.

[skorper]

The electropencil markings from the Fazakerly factory are sometimes very light.

[CINDERS]

I agree with Aussie48 the worth is what someone is willing to pay and you have to be realistic about the price based on allot of research on the prices. Here in Aus there are some ridiculous prices being asked for bog standard MkIII's or 4's and are they selling for that nope. Just because a person may pay say $900 for a No.5 does not mean anything it may be worth more or less depending on A) the buyers pocket depth combined with their desire to own such a piece B) the condition of the rifle.

Pretty much all just Greek to me.

[Peter Laidler]

I've seen a few No5's and that is as real as it is possible to get.

[Flying10uk]

but its missing the "o" from "ROF(f)".

I would think that a "faker" would be careful not to make such an obvious mistake.

[Peter Laidler]

On a light hearted but true point, everyone with something made in Liverpool, like your rifle, ought to accept at the outset that there will be something wrong - or if not 'wrong', then not quite right! It's like having a Speke made Triumph TR7 sports car or powerful Triumph Dolomite Sprint saloon. There will be something wrong. Not necessarily major......., but something like my friends new Speke made TR7 where the front end of the passenger wing was a a distinct shade of pimosa yellow that differed to er........ the rest of the car. Virtually every buyer of a car from Speke had a similar tale to tell. They closed the factory and thereafter made and painted the bodies at Swindon and built them up where they'd always been built. At the Triumph ancestral home in the Midlands. Problem solved and for several years, thereafter buyers identified Speke made cars, refused them and left them on the dealers forecourts to perish while the Swindon made cars sold and brought Triumph back from the financial brink