![]() ![]() ![]() Over the years I have received many emails regarding serial numbers. Serial Numbers, Model, Mark and Manufacture Identification. Here is a simple shadow board depicting the 4 most common Enfields. 1 or a Mark 3 303 British Endfield Rifle? Enfield.303 Serial number 47660? Are we talking Lee Enfield or P14 Enfield? The.303 british has been in use since the Boer war. If you care to give a more precise serial number I can date the manufacture to within a week or so. Chris is the man to give you more details on stocks, but I can tell you that your ERA rifle was made no earlier than Marh 1917. Any assistance or comments would be appreciated. ![]() It came with WRA buttplate assembly, an unmarked rear swivel assembly and a Remington volley sight base/arm so the attachments are of no help. Can the maker/user of this wood be identified based on these markings? If so, can anyone assist in deciphering the them. It does, however, have a proliferation of other markings, most of which are legible to one degree or another. In fact it appears the entire butt has been 'thinned', perhaps mostly by use, as the buttplate itself has sharp ridges at the juncture with the wood from it having it's edges ground, aparently while mounted, to match the former's contour. Sadly, as required by WRS, it has the wood insert where the disc should be and butt around it has been sanded to the extent that no trace of the original markings remain. If the answer is finger groove stocks were never used on Eddystone production, is there any way to identify which other manufacturer made this stock save for the markings on the side of the butt forward of the brass disc. The first question then is did this manufacturer ever use them on completed rifles or were they all in the so called 'fat boy' wood? If the answer is yes, were their use consistent with a rifle in the 300000 serial number range. My problem is that it has asymetrical finger grooves. I recently purchased a Eddystone P14 that came in a very nice, very clean stock. Or barring that, perhaps can direct me to where said answers can be found. I am hopeful someone has such information and can answer my question(s). I have always been impressed with its use of primary source material as the basis of discussion. Over the past couple of years I have been directed to threads on this site from Google searches on topics involving arms and equipment of the period I was doing research on. I am newly registered member of this forum but not new to its content. This is one of the first Pattern 14 rifles to be. Remington Pattern 1914 (British P14) American Enfield. ![]()
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