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    Has the frame got any signs of a repair inside it (behind where the serial should be)?

    Is it a scrapped/re-welded (over the serial) frame mated to a orphaned slide & barrel? The number on the frame could have been filled completely, so there was only the one number on the de-act certificate? (All guessing!)
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    I think Peter may be on to something when he asks if the frame is beefier where the S/N should be. I have 4 Inglis No.2 BHPs, and looking at the first picture I notice that there is an unfamiliar contour around the original proof mark above and behind the trigger, and where the cam fits through the frame. I imagine it is possible that the frame above the proof mark was welded up to repair a crack rather than replace the frame. The obvious question is who did it if it was done, given that it is unlikely that it was done at Enfield or during its military service time.

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    I think that mark may be a red herring as I wondered if it was a file mark. It turns out it's a machine mark and a lot of the Chinese No1 pistols have this same mark. I'm confident that this frame has had the number removed but it appears the number may have been in a slightly different position to normal or may have been a short number like xTxx.

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    There's clearly something that you aren't saying BP. So we're really urinating into the wind........ Or as they say in polite circles, is this a quiz or a raffle?

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    A short "T" number would make it one of ours then? UKicon numbers were different were they?
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    This was one of mine until recently, the serial number engraving is quite light, but is clearly on all three parts.
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    That looks typical of ours...
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    It's a bit shallower than I seem to remember it but it'd be noticeable if it were removed with a file. Maybe milled out and filled with tig.

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    The CH series one I have is engraved a lot deeper.

    Apologies my pictures keep loading the wrong way round for some reason
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    The serial numbers were the same BAR. I'd guess that the serial number has been removed. I have one of the lunch box pistols here as well as several others in very good to near new condition, mostly T series but a few CH too. One of the No.2 pistols I have is also a 1963 FTR out of Britishicon service.

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