Gunbroker Enfields Full Crate NIB

[Homer]

You know what I would really like, and that would be the experience of whoever rediscovered these rifle in the crate and saw them for the first time. I think it highy unlikely that these have been known of for all this time, with somone waiting for the rigth time to sell. Someone recently got to open a box and say "Bloody hell. Look what we have here. This is amazing". similar to the thrill of finding an in the wrap No.4 in the back roon of a gunstore or a No.1 Mk 5 in with a bunch of No.1 Mk3's. To a certain extent, the internet , with all the knowledge it has made available to us would be collectors, has also at the same time denied many of us the chance to make finds like this.

This could be the case.

There was a lithgow advertised on usedguns in Australia recently and I was told by the seller who is in very poor health that many years ago he was doing a building inspection for an elderly gentlemen when he discovered a large wooden crate in the ceiling space. Turns out it contained he thinks eight lithgows one of which the elderly gent gave him. It was covered in grease and he only fired 20 rounds through it recently before he sold it. Something he wanted to do before he dies.

That's what he told me anyway. Good story.

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[trooper554877]

This could be the case.

There was a lithgow advertised on usedguns in Australia recently and I was told by the seller who is in very poor health that many years ago he was doing a building inspection for an elderly gentlemen when he discovered a large wooden crate in the ceiling space. Turns out it contained he thinks eight lithgows one of which the elderly gent gave him. It was covered in grease and he only fired 20 rounds through it recently before he sold it. Something he wanted to do before he dies.

That's what he told me anyway. Good story.

he was probably telling the truth.
the fact is that here in Australia after the war when the rifle clubs where run under the defence department a unissued Mk3 could be brought for 3 pound. A heavy barrel cost 4 Pound 7 and 5 (don't know how to type the old currency).
This is fact as i have a document that was issued to all rifle club captains, at least here in the west. It is dated 1959 and has all the instructions on how to run the club. It has a catalogue of a complete available stores list including rifles and parts.
Even replacement bolt heads with part numbers and head measurements. they range from .635 to .640.
So the story of 8 to a box is correct as when the clubs put in a request for a number of new rifles, they where sent in factory boxes, 8 to a box. they did also have a half box or 4 to a box.
They where sent by rail, as that was the main transport mode, and the club captain went down to the railway siding, signed for a nd drove off with the rifles. The ammo was supplied free of charge. All they had to do was put in the number of shooters X the number of shoots and how many rds fired at each shoot plus a 10% fudge factor and the ammo was shipped free of charge.

It is a great momento of a by gone era.
Cheers
Ned

[captpete]

I have to commend the person who commented on the archived pictures from GB as "Gun Porn". They really are... An unreachable investment for most of us - (we can't get the funds approved by our family budget committee ) Non-the-less the pictures capture the breath and make us pause,

[enfield303t]

See the bidding has stalled at $3,185.00 for now and obviously in the mind of the bidders is getting close to today's value. I still think they will get closer to $3,500.00 before this is over. Just wish these were for sale in Canada as I think I would be willing to eat KD for a few months to be able to own them.

[enfield303t]

Well they went for $5,350.00 which is higher than I thought they would and maybe a little overpriced IMO but what do I know. Someone did get 4 absolutely beautiful rifles however.

[newcastle]

Sequentially numbered also so they're for a collection. Virtually certainly the winner is on here somewhere.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Sequentially numbered also so they're for a collection. Virtually certainly the winner is on here somewhere.

If so they need to confess and post some good pictures.

[Badger]

Sold for $5,350.00 U.S. (45 bids)

Regards,
Doug

[MJ1]

Treasure. I for one have never seen a new LB MkI*.