Interesting long branch marking

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Hi,I just picked up a 1945 long branch that was set up as a target rifle.It has a 1958 dated 6 grove barrel and a 4 digit serial # with no L.
The receiver has no signs of having the old serial # erased.looks like a new one.It has a interesting marking.
Can anybody tell me what it means??
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Interesting.... :)

It just appears to be the standard CAS (Canadian Arsenals) post war mark the "A" within the "C", but the underlying "W" mark is strange. I've not seen it before and I can't find it anywhere in Skennerton's book on markings The Broad Arrow"....

Regards,
Badger
 
Just a wild-assed guess, but perhaps it's a Canadian War Assets Corporation marking? In 1944, the Government of Canada created the War Assets Corporation, which was subsequently renamed the Crown Assets Disposal Corporation.

Back in the 40's gov't surplus used to be marked by the CWAC to indicate the items were not stolen, but I don't know if that is the marking or not, as I've never seen it in person.
 
Claven2 said:
Just a wild-assed guess, but perhaps it's a Canadian War Assets Corporation marking? In 1944, the Government of Canada created the War Assets Corporation, which was subsequently renamed the Crown Assets Disposal Corporation.

Back in the 40's gov't surplus used to be marked by the CWAC to indicate the items were not stolen, but I don't know if that is the marking or not, as I've never seen it in person.
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I've never seen this mark before. I think your War Assets idea sounds pretty much like reality.

I wonder when Canada evolved the current policy of not selling any surplus arms to the Canadian public?
We see lots of C Broad Arrow marked items in Canada but how many of them were just reimported from elsewhere?
Maybe this is the period mark showing it was actually surplused in Canada...although not commonly seen. We've also seen that sold out of service mark, with the C with two arrows pointing to each other inside the C.
 
I've even had this on innertubes.

Can you imagine the poor buggers who had to stamp every item being sold with this mark?

I wonder when Canada evolved the current policy of not selling any surplus arms to the Canadian public?
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I believe it was in the late, late 60s. There was that thread earlier which showed the RCMP no4s sale list to lever arms dated in 68.
 
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