Faz 1959 made L1A1

[Flying10uk]

The first line of the advert does state "Unbelievable Rare and almost certainly the one only in existence".

[mrclark303]

Faz small parts and woodwork are commonly found, charging handles and forends in particular.

I've never seen a Faz barrel and gas block, that would be interesting to upload for the group...

[mrclark303]

The first line of the advert does state "Unbelievable Rare and almost certainly the one only in existence".

Make of that what you will Geoff....

[mrclark303]

I finally found the SKN Faz cutaway L1A1 after a little web searching.

Take a look down in the pics, left side close up of the receiver, there is an unmistakable F60 stamp...

Cut away L1A1. | GunLab (KnownHost)

[GeeRam]

Same dealer was recently trying to sell a No.4T with some BS background story of it being a D-Day Royal Marine Commando used No.4T.......but saying it was a RM unit that wasn't even in Normandy on D-Day

[BigBadDog]

Taking a quick glance at the pictures I would say museum quality is somewhat of an exaggeration.
The wear (shiny exposed metal) on the carrying handle and the various axis pins on the body do not fit with the rifles body/TMH wear.
The safety catch has had a somewhat poor weld repair. The repair in its self was common, just this is not very tidily executed, perhaps we always had very skilled and competent metal smiths. If this rifle is as it states it would be unlikely to have a repaired safety catch.
The body locking catch is poorly fitted, suggesting it was plugged and played without the normal fitting one would expect. I would not expect it to leave the factory like this.
In front of the body locking catch you can see a darker area where the body locking catch once covered, indicating a refitted catch.
The rivet, to the side of the S on the TMH has been worked. When leaving the factory the rivet head would have have been invisible, however with time some of the rivets loosened and were re-tightened as evidenced here.
From the photograph it looks like there is a trace of a previous serial number, certainly a previous marking.
In the 1st photo the upper TMH rivet shows signs of loosening.
As both TMH rivets show signs of loosening I would conclude that this TMH has seen more life that perhaps suggested.
The hand guard screw doesn’t look correct, though it maybe.
The butt plate is poorly fitted.
The front sight is situated very high, if zeroed, I would be questioning a slightly bent barrel, possibly the sight just put in randomly.
The nut gas cylinder shows signs of having been done/undone, possibly indicating a gas cylinder repair/replacement or carrying handle replacement.
In the 4th photo it looks like the body hinge pin is in backwards.
I would love to get my hands on this and conduct a proper examination.

[skiprat]

this is for sale in the UK as a section 1 firearm,, any original L1A1 would be section 5 !
So the barrel must be new made with no gas vent,
And in theory the receiver remains section 5 unless it was never made into a complete L1A1 within the UK
Any Section 1 L1a1 in the UK must be made from a parts kit to be legal

[bigduke6]

The first line of the advert does state "Unbelievable Rare and almost certainly the one only in existence".

Now where have I heard that before............ I haven't even bothered to look on the associated site, as stated in one post , the L42 that was in question some time back didn't really do that business any good and said it all in my eyes.

Many years ago some members may remember the Rifle I bought from a dealer (see link for that post) ,

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=24836

I returned the rifle as it was a complete lash up and got my refund, it was from a collection of the late Chris Barber that a Northern dealer was trying to sell on behalf of the family, after a lot of re search the collection was mainly fake, forged etc, a few members here contacted me with further details of other such rifles that were sold from that collection.

So roll on a few years, I had an email from someone (who now runs the company with the rare L1A1 for sale) who had just started working for an established "Enfield " company at the time , regarding the rifle that I posted about, I give all the information I could which was quite a bit and it basically proved what a pile of shite Chris Barber had ....... but all this fell on deaf ears and the rifle was for sale with an extra 0 on the end.

Roll on a lot more years and I banned the said person from any correspondence or any buying from my ebay account early in the year, due to something I was selling .......but thats another story.

Why such dealers go to such great depths of typing up so much crap to sell something is beyond belief............ making a few ££ fair enough, but a straight pull L1A1 made from a parts kit for £7500 someone is pulling something .......