John Rigby & Sons No. 1 Mk.III Sniper

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For the beginning only a handful pictures of what I now finally have here with me in Europe and is now the pride of my British WWI snipers: the (to me) only known survivor of the John Rigby & Sons SMLE sniper rifle.

The particular piece came from the estate of Bob Faris and was bought at Poulin Antiques in an auction. This rifle originated from the Enfield Pattern Room since it was listed to had been part of it in 1927.

I have not had time yet to fully inspect it in detail. One thing I however noticed was the cut on the left rear sight protector, what makes me believe it originally had a scope which had the lateral adjustment in this place (aren‘t they called „capstans“ or something like this?), like the PPCo scope. I however do not have a PPCo scope without mount to see if it would fit!

Edit: added the additional pictures I've done also to this starting post.

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