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Help with identification!
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09-11-2010 11:46 AM
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"Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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According to Divia V.'s uncle, an active service general in the Indian Army, the mark should be read:
Technical
Establishment
(W)eapon
D----inspector's initial.
Documentation is not available, because the Indian Army doesn't surrender information easily---but Divia's uncle is reliable in other ways, as well.
The JOD in a circle to the left of the TE mark is considered to a depot mark.
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Finlog:
I had seen that reference but somehow missed that. Thanks for pointing it out! 
Krinko:
Fantastic! Thanks to you and your source.
I suppose we can't tell whether this was WW1 or WW2 stamp?
Thanks again for your time.
Can anyone shed any light on the single struck D in a circle which I found on the receiver underneath the woodwork?
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The single D in a circle found later, on the later No4's No5's and 8's et al barrels indicates a slight change in the means of indexing the barrel breeching up thread. But wouldn't imagine this would be so on an SMLE.............
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If its on the barrel (D in a crcle) = Draw lapped barrel.
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I think that was a theory put out some time ago Big Duke and found to be slightly incorrect because of certain inconsistencies. According to the UK
MoD, it's the later method of final machining barrels AFTER they'd been breech threaded to save wasting hundreds of barrels that would otherwise be scrapped due to.................... Anyway, I explained the whole theory and practice in a long article some years ago. The later method also allowed the use of (relatively) unskilled machine setters to set up barrel production lines at Fazakerley.
Quite what it means on an SMLE body (if that's what thepsalmsUK is referring to) that's very wisely never even been near to Liverpool means, is anyones guess.
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I can't decipher head nor tails of the photos generally except the stilson wrench marks (?) that indicate that it's not an Armourer who has attempted to unbreech it and what looks like a D in a circle. But a D in a circle didn't affect SMLE barrels and draw lapping - if it dead mean that in another time warp wasn't the way they did things then. But I could be wrong
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Image IMG00067-20100911-1622 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! shows the two broad arrows struck bottom left. Does that then mean it was sold out of service?
Perhaps it then went to India??
I'm completely stumped on this one!
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