no1mk111 vollysight / safety?

[JTF#]

I found another mystery on my 1915 MK111.

the receiver is cut for a safety and the bottom stock is cut for vollysights but the but stock had a section spliced in that has a cut out for the safety. any idea? war time thing or later?

here is a photo with all the parts that made up the safety.

 

[5THBATT]

A common type of repair, many Lee Enfields can be found with patches in the wood done in a similar fashion, some from new!

 

[HarryD]

I think it all looks normal from my phone. Splitting did occur at times around the butt socket and this ones been repaired.

The finish almost looks parkerised and the safety spring is a much later Lithgow make. The photos are crap though and it's too hard to tell anything for certain. A correct restoration with all the correctly marked parts of an early Lithgow like this is very hard these days but 1915 actions are a little hard to find. Not my cup of tea though. How much is it?

 

[Lee Enfield]

A common type of repair, many Lee Enfields can be found with patches in the wood done in a similar fashion, some from new!

Somewhere in my parts bin is a never fitted Long Branch No4 butt stock which has a similar glued in repair from before contouring on the wood lathe