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sgt K	1910 Enfield	Lead	[-]
Posts: 132 (12/01/08 11:48 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Had a good weekend, at a tiny gunshow I spotted a lonely enfield standing in a rack. B.S.A., dated 1910, with cut-off, matching wood, barrel and nose cap numbers match, plus WWI sling. Has a rebuilt stamp of 1918, but sorry to say no sign of volley sights. Two things are pretty unusual, no import marks at all, lifted the forewood, no Ten Tonne stamp, nothing. Plus right on the reciever is a tiny round stamping. Best I can tell it is, Osterr Gendarmee, would that be national police of the Netherlands? If I recall post WWII, Enfields were supplied to the police forces that had turned in their weapons, correct? So if it was in Europe til the 1950s, how did it make it over here sans an import stamp. Any ideas? Plus, at Cabellas found a Lithgow stamped 1916, but, doesn't have the Lithgow Shield. Has a four digit number on the reciever, none on the nose cap, and the bolt looks new with no numbers on it at all. The wood, is awful, 3 different types, or at least shades, is it possible it could be a Khyber Pass rifle? Like I said, an interesting weekend.
GrantR Canada		#1	[-]
Posts: 387 (12/02/08 12:51 AM) Host Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Likely "Österreich Gendarmerie" - Austrian Police. Austria was one of the countries to which Britain supplied arms for police use following WWII. Grant Rombough Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada ("Rattlesnake Jack Robson", Scout, Rocky Mountain Rangers, 1885) WEBSITE: "RATTLESNAKE JACK'S"
temperflash		#2	[-]
Posts: 355 (12/02/08 02:17 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	If the cut off is still there but not the volley sights I expect the fore end is an EFD walnut transitional rebuild stock. I'm ordering an unissued fore end for my 1915 Mk III along with replacement cut off plate. Some Post WW2 rebuild stocksets were Beech but those I've seen had no provision for the cut off. Might have been a private purchase by a returning US serviceman. Last Edited By: temperflash 12/02/08 02:20 AM. Edited 1 times.
Bryan 45		#3	[-]
Posts: 2311 (12/02/08 12:07 PM) Host Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Until 1968, rifles imported into the US were not required to be stamped. The '68 GCA ended imports until the '86 machine gun ban. Only firearms brought into the US since '86 have been required to be import marked.
RichieRich3902		#4	[-]
Posts: 1306 (12/02/08 04:07 PM) Host Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have a 1918 NRF that served some time in the tropics due to it's green paint on the metal, and after the war spent some time in Austria and bears that same stamp. I think they are very neat rifles. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. -William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
A square 10		#5	[-]
Posts: 732 (12/02/08 10:44 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	"If the cut off is still there but not the volley sights I expect the fore end is an EFD walnut transitional rebuild stock. I'm ordering an unissued fore end for my 1915 Mk III along with replacement cut off plate. " where might i ask , are you "ordering" such a thing from ? there are a bunch of us out here that would love to get such as thing , this would be a very valuable find http://steyrmannlicher.yuku.com/directory "the original yesterdays weapons"
sgt K	1910 Enfield	#6	[-]
Posts: 134 (12/02/08 10:51 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Thanks to everyone here for their replies. The stamping is tiny, round, what may be the Austrian eagle in the center, Austrian it is, as there is an Austrian stamping on the magazine too. Pointed out by a friend that admires Enfields. Now to find a place to put it.
temperflash		#7	[-]
Posts: 356 (12/03/08 06:41 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	A square 10 wrote: "If the cut off is still there but not the volley sights I expect the fore end is an EFD walnut transitional rebuild stock. I'm ordering an unissued fore end for my 1915 Mk III along with replacement cut off plate. " where might i ask , are you "ordering" such a thing from ? there are a bunch of us out here that would love to get such as thing , this would be a very valuable find SSSSH I'll PM you the details. Too many find out about them and the price will skyrocket. I waited too late on the ones they had left in stock when I first inquired and they'd sold those before I got back to them, but they've ordered more from the UK and should have them in sometime in January. Hopefully they'll reserve one for me.
A square 10		#8	[-]
Posts: 745 (12/04/08 10:39 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	OK , no problem , ill keep quiet .............. http://steyrmannlicher.yuku.com/directory "the original yesterdays weapons"

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