Paper in Enfield

[Rball]

Hello, I'm new to the forum and just got a Lee Enfield no.4 MK.1 you can see the post here.

This may be the wrong forum sorry if it is.

I took off the buttplate and a paper flew out.

From what I can make out it reads:
Sam Jackson
Pluline (smudged word)
no 647xxxxx
(smudged word, looks like it might say serial) 419xxxxxxx

The pluline might be something else not sure though, the paper is pretty smudged.
The 55 might be a 22 not sure.

Any ideas what this might be?

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[jrhead75]

Nothing comes to mind here...a good close up photo would be a big help.

[Rball]

I'll post what I've got, I may try to scan it later today.
It looks pretty much like the pictures.

[spinecracker]

Looks like a prior owner put his (and her) details on the slip of paper in case the rifle was stolen or lost. I think the "Pluline" is more likely "Pauline", and the following number is a phone number. The last set of numbers looks to be a social security number, issued in Alabama between 1936 and 1950. The last line looks like it reads "social security".

[jrhead75]

Agree with Spinecracker...Sam and Pauline Jackson with a phone # and ssn.

[Rball]

That would make sense mystery solved, Thanks Jrhead, and spinecracker.

[spinecracker]

You are welcome. I am used to reading other doctors' handwriting, so a smudged bit of paper that's been stuck in a rifle for decades is a doddle lol.

[RJW NZ]

Good history, well done, if you get an ishapore its usually grass seeds, lol.

[Amatikulu]

The phone number ties up with a "Jackson" in Montevallo Alabama in the 1953 phone directory

[Peter Laidler]

Blimey Amatikulu, that was a clever bit of detective work. I'm suitably impressed