Lets play "ID the MK1"

[Wrong Way]

Heres the other half of the "I-don't-know-what-they-are-so-I'm-gonna-give-'em-to-you-to-find-out-and-get-rid-of-it-for-me" box that wifey brought home from the outlaws (first half is in the pistols forum)......I'll let the pictures talk cause I have NO idea. Same questions as always
Age/history/info/$$

Need more info just ask!
Thanks!

 

[Skippy]

ROFM stands for Royal Ordnance Factory Maltby, in England.
It was made there in '41.

Now I'll let someone who really knows what they're talking about give you the low down.

 

[slicknick]

A Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk1 that would be early production (Started in 1941 IIRC) Got a bit of blueing missing but if the thing matches all over (wood, bolt, mag, reciever, etc) it should be worth a few hundred with the bayo. I'd say if you don't already have one keep it for a peice of history and if you do not then sell it to me

That's all I can really tell you, but I am but a young pup who has recently gotten the enfield bug

 

[stencollector]

An early example of the #4mk1. The * stamped over the breech is actually a pair of broadarrows. It was counterstruck, indicating it's sale to civilians and that it is no longer government property.
Cocking piece should have been the round style, but may have been changed while in service.

The second serial number looks like one of the New Zealand inventory control number.

 

[sunray]

"...that wifey brought home from the outlaws..." Registered, of course. It's a standard No. 4 Mk I in mediocre condition. Check the headspace before you shoot it.

 

[Wrong Way]

"Outlaws" is my term of endearment for the "Inlaws".....

 

[smellie]

everybody sez check your headspace but nobody sez check your ammo.... yet a great deal of poor shooting with Lee-Enfields, including rather nice Number 4 Mark Is made at Maltby, is the fault of the ammunition.

 

[Wrong Way]

I'll pass the info on to the buyer. I'm not keeping it....just been asked to "dispose" of it.

Thanks everyone!