Enfield No2 pistol Q?

No but I have an Enfield No.2 Mk.1 with the hammer spur intact marked on the bottom to the 13/18 Royal Hussars who fought in Normandy so the whole "tanker units were issued spurless pistols" thing is a myth in my mind
anyone ever found an Enfield No2 mk1* 'tanker' pistol with a marked grip disk??
 
I heard the story a lot, that tankers had no spur so they wouldn't get caught on things.

Later I was told that really, making them spurless with no spur-#### capability was done as a cost-cutting measure...
 
i have seen other pistols marked in other places but why the hell did they put a marking disk on the grip and then never use it?
 
Considering that the standard holster swallows the pistol, the possibility of anything catching is non exsistent!
Just another myth by surplus dealers to sell their product.
 
There's a few explanations for why they made them SA only, one I heard was that the British didn't want their troops trying to make aimed shots at targets beyond pistol range.


I think there were two or three models of grips that had disks, some of the unmarked ones are probably pistols that were issued to outfits that marked the frames of their pistols rather than the disks, but others could be pistols that originally had grips without a disk, but at some point the grips were replaced.
 
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