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Interesting. I'd like to know if the "spare" receiver or barreled actions were serialized? How do we explain how 00341G entered into public hands? Its serial number is on the original Parker Hale/DND Contract.

Do you really think that PH would have sent the CF an un-serialized completed receiver in 1990? It wasn't 1945 or 1955 any more -

00341G could easily have been retained by PH as a sample, or failed QC and been rejected by the CF - or it's possible that PH built 2 rifles with the same serial number.

Serial numbers are serial numbers - they are assigned by the manufacturer, the Canadian Gov't doesn't own numbers or prefixes or suffixes- as an example, FN built many Serial #1 FAL rifles and HP pistols - Beretta and Breda built many serial # 1 Garand rifles.