Thanks to a buddy bird dogging them for me, I came into a pair of NOS No4 Beech No4 Mk1 forends on Thursday for a price so cheap the seller may as well have paid me to take them.

After wiping off all the spiders, cobwebs and sunflower seed shells, it appears that these forends might be from SA.

They are both marked on the bottom right in front of the trigger guard with a tombstone shaped marking with a three digit number in them and a U with something in the middle that I can't make out. Very similar to the markings on my NOS SA No1 barrel.

Forend caps are marked CE1967, but that's all the markings I see beyond the wood stampings described above.

Were these made in SA with English forend caps or do these sound like English made stocks with SA inspection markings?

Thanks.
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