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11-30-2006 06:36 PM
# ADS
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I'm shocked you guys don't find this find interesting enough to comment on.
Same with CGN
No comments what so ever.
Must be milsurp fatigue.
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It IS an interesting rifle, would seem to have been assembled specifically for the RHKDF. Wonder where it was set up. I could see rifles being assembled for a special order from available parts. Have never heard of another one. There was a batch of ex-RHKPF Colt .38 S&W revolvers sold surplus a while back. Wonder if this was released at the same time.
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Looks like a post-war commercial rifle bade from leftover No.4 and No.5 parts. The Foreign Office sometimes contracted, always with BSA as they were a private concern, to supply rifles to the colonials. Hong Kong qualified for such an arrangement ![Wink](images/smilies/wink.gif)
It's an interesting and rare Enfield with limited appeal to all but the most devoted collectors as it's a commercial, post-war variant that probably never saw action and a purist would say the post-war commercial put-togethers are less desireable, much like commercial Long Lees are often collected less than the military issue versions.
I find it interesting, but alot of milsurp guys wouldn't.
Союз нерушимый республик свободных Сплотила навеки Великая Русь. Да здравствует созданный волей народов Единый, могучий Советский Союз!
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I dissagree
I think a find like this is:
HIGHLY Desireable
HIGHLY Collectible
Especially if you're Chinese
It represents a period of Chinese / British
History that is rarely available to anyone let alone avid collectors.
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Are there any reports of rifles such as these being ordered? For example, there were a variety of contracts for No. 4 Mk.2 rifles in the post war period. In a way its odd that a rifle such as this was set up, because there was a vast supply of standard rifles available in the period. Perhaps it was assembled in HK from available parts.
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