Unknown Lee-Enfield barrel mark

[CMichaud]

I see the DCP proof but what is the small circle that looks like a wheel? It does not seem to be a sold out of service mark.

Thanks!

Edit: Better pic below...

 

[Blastattack]

India?

 

[woodchopper]

ah that's the property of the woodchopper mark, you can drop it off at my place

looks like an EAL

 

[Beater]

hard to tell with the poor pic, sure it isn't 2 arrows pointing towards themselves, inside a circle? sold out of service mark?

 

[bdft]

It's pretty hard to tell but, yeah, I think that's the sold out of service mark.

 

[CMichaud]

Maybe this pic is a bit clearer

 

[Beater]

back up with the camera don't try and get so close. get a nice clear pic, then zoom in after its in the computer

 

[CMichaud]

One more time with powder applied

 

[Ganderite]

White chalk is handy for making marks stand out for photos.

 

[Beater]

well it doesn't look like a SOS mark to me. also a new one to me

 

[tiriaq]

Is it an asterisk mark? Bore rust or cord wear?

 

[CMichaud]

The barrel seems in good shape. Its on an EAL rifle and has the CA stamp on it (actually twice - one big and one small)

 

[woodchopper]

well I got the EAL part right


Looks like 4 hearts in a circle but the center is a big dot.

perhaps a central dot with 4 crowns, and a circle ?

I've never seen anything like it, and being that its on an EAL its not a foreign military mark.

 

[cantom]

I've never seen it either.

 

[koldt]

Might be a sold out of service C double broad arrow mark????

 

[flashman2]

Might be a sold out of service C double broad arrow mark????

On a civilian model EAL?

In any case, there's eight "spokes." A double C broad arrow would have six. Plus the apex of the arrow isn't at the centre of the "C" on the stamp, it's at the top 1/4.

The angles look wrong too for a C broad arrow stamp... too wide on the "arrows"... but if a stamp with funky angles was stamped 4 times around in a circle you could get this pattern, and a circle in the middle where the tips intersected. If it's struck four times though, someone did a really great job of it as I don't see any overlap.

 

[englishman_ca]

Very interesting.

I have been actively collecting Lee Metfords and Enfields for over thirty years. I never turn down an opportunity to check out the markings on a Lee, even poor Bubba specials if offered. I have not seen this mark in the metal of a rifle before now.

You mention that it is on an EAL rifle? If so, the mark might not be military.

It would appear to be similar to commercial made stamps retailed to hobbiests for leather working. No doubt similar are available for metal workers and jewellery crafters.

 

[woodchopper]

thinking that that stamp looks like the wheel used by Movement Control units,

but there is no reason for a Movement Control unit to have an EAL.

 

[flashman2]

thinking that that stamp looks like the wheel used by Movement Control units,

but there is no reason for a Movement Control unit to have an EAL.

Or the military to have a civvy model EAL at all.