MARKINGS & DESIGNATIONS...
The serial number is PF 143099. I'd appreciate any information you'd be able to give me. Savage Lee Enfield No4 Mk1. Serial Numbers. Over the weekend I purchased a 1943 Long Branch No.4Mk.I. Enfield. The person I bought it from had kept it in a gun cabinet for the past 20 years and had rarely taken it out in that time. The bore is in excellent.
Serial numbers of certain Lee-Enfields can serve as indicators of the model and help with initial authentication. The 'BS' prefix was used for the.22 British No.7 rifles, 'T1' for the.22 No.5 trials small-bore target rifles in 1945 and 'DA' for the.22 No.8 N.Z. Serial numbers are found on the inside right, front of the body while.303 conversion numbers used the left side. So as to match critical parts, serial number was also stamped under the rear sight leaf (and fore-ends, nosecaps, bolts, of Lee-Enfields too). Pf Lee Enfield Serial Numbers - madfasr My 1954 Lee Enfield Purchase.PF 1412 No 4 Mk 2 serial numbers - Enfield-Rifles.com - Page 1 No4 MkI - All About Enfields Fazakerly Factory Lee Enfield No4 Mk2 No.4 Mkii + Scope Rail, Import Marked, Black 25u201d Parts Matching Bolt Action Military Rifle MFD 1954.303 British Lee Enfield No4 Mk2.303. The 'Irish Contract' rifles had serial identification with PF and a specific block of numbers. Opinions vary on whether or how many of these Irish Contract rifles ever actually served in Ireland. I held one, sold it to a friend who wanted a No.4, Mk.2 and neither he nor I cared at all about it being anything other than a No.4, Mk.2.
Pf Lee Enfield Serial Numbers List
German Manufacturing Codes of Occupied Countries during World War 2
These codes may be found on various wartime small arms manufactured in Nazi-occupied Europe during WW2. The following makers' codes are noted on some bayonet blades and scabbards, it is quite possible that they may also appear on firearms and related components. Two Swiss codes are noted. Switzerland was not an occupied country but Germany placed contracts with some factories there.
Such examples of items produced in the occupied European countries are fairly rare, and obviously a good find for any collector who can locate and recognise them. All one needs to do is remember them, or list the particular codes, when looking through Kar98k Mauser bayonet blades and the like, in collections, or for sale by dealers. Their values are perhaps 50%, maybe even 100% more than for a regular German manufacturer. The following codes are most likely to have been marked in lower case rather than capital letters as indicated below. e.g. 'ch', 'gsb'. 'kfk', 'mpr' &c.
C.H. F.N. Browning K.F.K. Danish G.S.B. Belgian K.S.B. French G.S.C. Belgian
K.W.H. Fiat G.V.Y. Swiss M.P.R. Swiss J.W.H. Chatteralaut (French)