New here, a couple of true unicorns is what I believe that I have!

[j5550-16]

Here's the back story, and I'll try to keep it short. I grew up in Toronto, and every time I went to my grandparents house I and my brother and cousin would stare at the rifles in the glass case in the basement. For fourty years i never knew anything about them until my uncle gave them to me. It took months of searching sites, and browsing pictures. I knew they were Lee Enfields, but they had very few markings and didn't look anything like the pictures I was seeing. Until I read an article about SAL and long branch arsenals, and saw the name Malcolm Jolley, capt, then colonel. I have always known the name Jolley, as a family connection, but never knew anything about the colonel. I knew his son who has passed, and his grandson. Well as some know the colonel set up and ran sal/lba. Now is where things get interesting. I have no proof, but I know my grandfather and the Colonel were very good friends. what i have are 2 rifles apparently given to the colonel on his leaving sal/lba. Custom made stocks. Very few discernable markings that i couldn't make sense of. Until I saw a j5550 version they totally resembled a no4mk1 but not at all. One of the unicorns has # as per my user name, but the bolt is #14 the other is even more extensively lightened and has no numbers unless they were ground off. It may be an earlier version of the j5550 series. Please chime in with your words and opinions. I will try later to load pictures but I'm not so good at that with resizing. Thanks. Thats my story. I hope it make sense. Again absolutely no proof at this point, but I'm working on it.

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