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    2"mortar Mk2 lensatic sight.

    How rare is the 2" mortar Mk2 lenstatic sight with case, is it in the same class and price as the
    lensatic sight used on the Brengun.
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    We still have them in stores, they would be issued with the bipod and baseplate when changing our mortar over from hand held... So to me they aren't rare at all.
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    So how rare is the 2" mortar with the heavy base plate, all I have seen is the small base plate that looks like a short bit of angle iron. I thought this lensatic sight was discontinued when they changed to the spade plate design around about 1942-43. Then we just used a painted like on the tube. Are we talking about the same 2"mortar.
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    There were several different versions of the 2" mortar. Of the many different marks and sub-marks, only the one originally designed for airborne troops was left by the time it departed from service.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Topfmine View Post
    So how rare is the 2" mortar with the heavy base plate
    Again, I drew ours out of stores and gave lectures on the bipod/baseplate/sight kit. They weren't scarce at all. We used the same baseplate as the 81mm.
    Regards, Jim

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    Which one??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gil Boyd View Post
    Which one??
    Of course ours only vaguely resembles those...
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    Here you go Jim with the traditional sighting line missing
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    Roger that Gil, ours is just a smidge different... Only one poor pic among this whole thing.

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    The last picture or forth picture along is the base plate mortar that I am referring its use with a lensatic sight that was discontinued around 1942. The first picture is know as a spade plate mortar. The sight I am referring to has nothing to do with post war modern day 60mm mortars.

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