Lee Enfield #4 MK 1, too the axe?

[sdh1911]

Yesterday I picked up a WW II vintage #4 mk1 for a project. I got the Canadian manual on building a target version of the #4. I found this one covered in crap for $150.00 US. The bore looked like it might clean-up so I bought the gun. When I got it home and started cleaning it off with the hand cleaner I found some very disturbing things about it. First, it has no import marks, go figure. Then noticed the wood was really quite nice, now I'm getting mad, then I started looking at those crappy hand ground marks that reads something like No 4, MK 1 ROF(f) 8/43, the serial number reads F with an LB stamped next to it 26094A,hum same as the bolt. There is a JC and E stamped on the inside of the pistol grip. There is a B with the braod head on the type one mic sight. On the front sight there is a R.F.F. stamped on the drivers side and 0.015 stamped on the passenger side. The one good thing is it has a Savage #3 head on the bolt. All this being said, I just don't know if I should over haul this one or log it in the collection? I sure looks like a WW II gun and I'd hate to make a match gun out of a correct piece, assuming it is one. I sure could use a little input here guy's-SDH

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