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New here, a couple of true unicorns is what I believe that I have!
Here's the back story, and I'll try to keep it short. I grew up in Toronto, and every time I went to my grandparents house I and my brother and cousin would stare at the rifles in the glass case in the basement. For fourty years i never knew anything about them until my uncle gave them to me. It took months of searching sites, and browsing pictures. I knew they were Lee Enfields, but they had very few markings and didn't look anything like the pictures I was seeing. Until I read an article about SAL and long branch arsenals, and saw the name Malcolm Jolley, capt, then colonel. I have always known the name Jolley, as a family connection, but never knew anything about the colonel. I knew his son who has passed, and his grandson. Well as some know the colonel set up and ran sal/lba. Now is where things get interesting. I have no proof, but I know my grandfather and the Colonel were very good friends. what i have are 2 rifles apparently given to the colonel on his leaving sal/lba. Custom made stocks. Very few discernable markings that i couldn't make sense of. Until I saw a j5550 version they totally resembled a no4mk1 but not at all. One of the unicorns has # as per my user name, but the bolt is #14 the other is even more extensively lightened and has no numbers unless they were ground off. It may be an earlier version of the j5550 series. Please chime in with your words and opinions. I will try later to load pictures but I'm not so good at that with resizing. Thanks. Thats my story. I hope it make sense. Again absolutely no proof at this point, but I'm working on it.
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07-20-2018 10:10 PM
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Intrigued to hear more......& if you can possibly get those photo's uploaded it'll help immensely.
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Can you elaborate on "Custom Stock"? One piece stock? Pictures are a must to tell you more. You could email them to one of us...sure there's a volunteer who who upload to the site. Great story....names and timing are all good. At the end of SAL an number of toolroom components/rifles were converted into presentation pieces for retirees, dignitaries,...there's some history in C Law's book "Without Warning". Like to here more on your "Unicorns". Ron (Canada
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Last edited by rgg_7; 07-21-2018 at 07:58 AM.
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Yes they are one piece stocks. What I would call a more modern hunting style stock.
Andy
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I can load the pics for you if you like...see your PMs for an email address...
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From the numbers they are Canadian lightweight rifles.
However, a couple of years ago we had another chap on a Canadian web group with the same thing and the whole issue just faded away.
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Thank You to Warren For This Useful Post:
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Originally Posted by
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the whole issue just faded away.
Well, he has a PM from me with an email to post his pics...
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I'm going to try tomorrow, to post some pictures. If it doesn't work out, I have 2 offers of help with posting.
Thank you.
Andy
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Well it won't fade away in this case, and no that was not me, or related to these rifles. No one in my family has had any idea of what was sitting in the basement. I have sent photos of the rifles to seaforth72 for uploading.
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