Lithgow buttstock? "PAGE"

[Garandrew]

Does this mean anything to anyone?

Is this a 3rd variation? Was the PAGE added by someone other than Australia?

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[Demo]

I've never seen it before.

What made you want to pull the butt plate off.

[Garandrew]

I removed to plate, just to see how it looked underneath..I think its a persons name..

[rich v]

PAGE was the name of a beer before FOSTERS bought them out.

[Garandrew]

From another collector...PAGE is now seen on 2 Lithgows under butt plate

"Funny, I have that same stamp on my Lithgow SMLE MK III* Dated 1941 that I just got...was wondering the same?"

[Garandrew]

According to Joe Salter, the rifle was owned by a veteran, named "PAGE", he must have marked them under the stock buttplate

[Peter Laidler]

I think that the bloke at the factory assembling it or reassembling it after a FTR stamped his name there......... especially if two have been found with the name - so far!

People often used to scratch their name into the wood, under the barrel or stuff a piece of paper into the butt hole with a name on it.
People find the names of the women who assembled cars scribbled onto the door pad liners, especially from the old Triumphs from Speke. Mind you, if I'd assembled a Triumph at Speke, I'd keep quiet about it especially after having owned one once

[Garandrew]

Peter, I dont think it was FTR'ed. It seems all original. Joe said the rifles were owned by a WW2 veteran, named PAGE

[Peter Laidler]

Is This Salter chap a dealer/trader? If so, he must have a phenominal memory of encyclopeadic proportions if he can remember two particular Australian made rifles going to a Mr Page......... He might have done of course. If war vet Mr Page did put his name on them, I'd ask why he put it where neither he nor anyone else in the world could see it. If he needed to identify his rifles in the future say, surely he'd have looked at the serial number on the body.

That's just my take on things. Are you out there Mr Page..........................?

[Garandrew]

Joe Salter is a Canadien barrister, and firearms dealer working out of New Hampsire, and Canada. With his son Joe Jr.

Heres his e-mails to me...hes the dealer I got them from

Page is the name of the Vet who owned the guns. They must have been from his collection.


Best,
Joe

[I asked Joe if PAGE was a WW2 veteran, Joe bought them from him..]

Yes he was in the Pacific in WWII. He was 841st Engineers. Both weapons definitely came from him. He had a huge collection.

Joe Salter Jr., Downeast Antiques