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So I picked up a couple of really nice enfields from an auction a while back.
The first is a very nice condition 1919 Lithgow No. 1 Mk. III* that must have been through a bit of a rebuild as all of the coachwood stocks are really nice and the forend isn't numbered to the receiver. The rear sight has a different serial number and the barrel has some weird grinding/punchings over where the serial number used to be. The Bolt, receiver and nosecap match, so that is good and it seems to have a great bore! What do you make of the barrel date? I can't figure the first digit out. The other is an 8 almost for sure.
Very happy with it and it was described very well on the auction site. Paid $500 and it sits at home at $650 all in.
Now here is where it gets good!
The second rifle is a 1918 Eddystone M1917 that was described as in only good condition. I just went over it and it is as far as I can tell NEW in the grease. The bore looks perfect, everything is marked with an E, all the screws are perfect, the two trigger guard screws were still staked, the follower and bolt look like they have only been opened a few times, the blued parts are perfectly blued and the rest has that nice deep dark greenish black parkerizing, the wood is almost perfect except for a few storage dings here and there, Barrel is marked for the end of the war, Nov. 1918, and everything is absolutely slathered in cosmoline!
Extremely happy with it! But I have just decided now that I can't go through with the cleaning other than the bore to make sure it is good and protected. I am going to put it all back together and leave it mummified in its own GOO!
How often do these come up new in the grease? Can't be many...
Paid $550 and it sits at home for about $700 all in!!!!!!!
Enjoy,
Ian
So I picked up a couple of really nice enfields from an auction a while back.
The first is a very nice condition 1919 Lithgow No. 1 Mk. III* that must have been through a bit of a rebuild as all of the coachwood stocks are really nice and the forend isn't numbered to the receiver. The rear sight has a different serial number and the barrel has some weird grinding/punchings over where the serial number used to be. The Bolt, receiver and nosecap match, so that is good and it seems to have a great bore! What do you make of the barrel date? I can't figure the first digit out. The other is an 8 almost for sure.
Very happy with it and it was described very well on the auction site. Paid $500 and it sits at home at $650 all in.
Now here is where it gets good!
The second rifle is a 1918 Eddystone M1917 that was described as in only good condition. I just went over it and it is as far as I can tell NEW in the grease. The bore looks perfect, everything is marked with an E, all the screws are perfect, the two trigger guard screws were still staked, the follower and bolt look like they have only been opened a few times, the blued parts are perfectly blued and the rest has that nice deep dark greenish black parkerizing, the wood is almost perfect except for a few storage dings here and there, Barrel is marked for the end of the war, Nov. 1918, and everything is absolutely slathered in cosmoline!
Extremely happy with it! But I have just decided now that I can't go through with the cleaning other than the bore to make sure it is good and protected. I am going to put it all back together and leave it mummified in its own GOO!
How often do these come up new in the grease? Can't be many...
Paid $550 and it sits at home for about $700 all in!!!!!!!
Enjoy,
Ian
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