Scope mount for Lee Enfield

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I recently purchased an aluminum scope mount for a Lee Enfield. As I set about to clean it up, turns out what I thought were random scratches on the underside included block lettering. In three lines it reads "PATENT APPLIED FOR", "HIGH LONG", "FARQUHARSON MOUNT". The seller got it in a lot of parts from a guy who got it in a lot of parts, so no background available there. Google comes up with nothing relevant, for me. Has anyone heard or seen these things before? Any ideas where they came from or who made them or where?
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interesting

looks like it needs some more holes in the rear of the base.

I suspect that you would need to remove the charger bridge on the enfield to make it fit. then the rear would have 2 screws one on each side that threaded thru the enfield rear sight base.

but then again it might have been designed to attach to the charger guide.

but it does look unfinished.

need some more pictures
 
I agree that it is probably unfinished as it does not actually fit into any of the half dozen No. 4's that I have tried it on. It appears the design is to have the rear of it slide into the opening in front of the charger slots on the rear bridge, and the mount's rear bevel appears to match up with the angle of the bevel in the cross bridge, just behind the charger recesses.
Would require two screws through the top of the front receiver ring. As it sits, the rear milling has left it too wide by about .030". Of course, those front two holes near front are "half a hole" further apart than the holes on the Parker Hale BA 20's that I've compared it to. The front seat exactly matches the length of the front ring.
I was curious if it was actually a commercial product, or perhaps a prototype, or what. As is, it would require some more milling of the rear "cheeks", or taking equivalent off the inside of the charger slot. As suggested by woodchopper, it might then require a "grub screw" through the left and right side of charger bridge to anchor the rear? Just curious if these were used, and if so, how the maker intended them to be installed.

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Almost appears that the charging bridge centre should be cut out and the mount slid back, with the grub screws going in from either side.
How does it look on a No 4 action?
 
Picture added to Post #4 - the base seems to need to be slide back about 1/2" from where it is sitting in picture, except the rear of base is slightly wider than the bridge charger slot. Of course, just to confound things, I've just observed that the charger slot in the No. 4 is not close to being centered on the centreline of the bolt / action centerline - its offset 1/8" or so to the right side!!
 
I've fitted several of the weaver TO1 mounts to Lee Enfields and the rear charging bridge is at a different height between no1 and 4 there is a small shim plate for the no 1 in the sight mounting kits and even then some needed filed down slightly so that might cause some issues with verticle. Alignment.
 
woodchopper said:
thanks for the pic with the receiver.

still a little head scratching on what the plan was to attach it to the charger bridge.
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Yep. Pretty much what I am wondering about it. At this point, I am guessing that original designer was going to rely on the bevel on the back of mount to be engaging the bevel on front of receiver bridge. I guess I am too much of a "belt and braces" type to go with that idea.

Just for completeness, the receiver pictured in Post #4 is a Savage No. 4 Mk1* receiver.
 
There was a John?? Farquharson, in the Winnipeg area, back in the sixties. I never crossed paths with him, but my first rifle instructor knew him and shot with him in the DCRA. He had at least one and perhaps two, articles about the DCRA published in Gun World magazine.
 
Thanks, Slug. I found a write-up on DCRA website. George "Farky" Farquharson is credited with creating the DCRA F-Class shooting discipline - use of scope because he could no longer see well enough to shoot with iron sights. Makes sense that he might have tried to figure out how to mount a scope on a No. 4. Coincidently, I got this from a guy not far from Winnipeg.

http://www.dcra.ca/index.php Go to "Shooting", then "F-Class information".
 
Potashminer said:
Yep. Pretty much what I am wondering about it. At this point, I am guessing that original designer was going to rely on the bevel on the back of mount to be engaging the bevel on front of receiver bridge. I guess I am too much of a "belt and braces" type to go with that idea.

Just for completeness, the receiver pictured in Post #4 is a Savage No. 4 Mk1* receiver.
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FTR I suspect... looks like a spot weld on the charger guide.
 
Potashminer said:
Yep. Pretty much what I am wondering about it. At this point, I am guessing that original designer was going to rely on the bevel on the back of mount to be engaging the bevel on front of receiver bridge. I guess I am too much of a "belt and braces" type to go with that idea.

Just for completeness, the receiver pictured in Post #4 is a Savage No. 4 Mk1* receiver.
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FTR I suspect... looks like a spot weld on the charger guide.
 
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