Serial number is in the range of rifles produced for the Irish Republic, commonly called Irish contract rifles. 4 Mark 2 Irish Contract Fazakerly 1954 manufacture. The link below is to a web site I created some. I have an Enfield Mark 4 number two, with serial “AC7594”, also marked “1943”, and “M” +7.,On the top of the front barrel cap it has “JB”letters. It was sold out service, unknown year, marked.303 2.22″. According to the markings it was rebarreled in 1921 in England and the barrel serial number forced matched to the receiver. I made a trade for the action and barrel of an Enfield 1918 SMLE MKIII., Serial Number O 4477. The rifle in question is a 1943 with numbers N24MKJ(F)FTR /49AP6888 stamped on the reciever. 4 rifles.Hi all, first off I am new to this site having stumbled upon it while looking for some i.d help with a newly acquired Lee Enfield rifle so please bear with me as I am not yet familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the search function. The overwhelming majority of these “finds” are recently-made parts guns or replicas or recent aftermarket conversions of standard No. For the most part, though, they are not recently discovered “unissued” rifles, nor are they long-lost “prototypes” that have suddenly surfaced. Many of these are quite handsome rifles with pretty decent workmanship and are probably worth the $125 to $150 that the major firearms distributors ask for them. The best on line reference I've found for the Enfield Is listed below.Over the past several months, Enfield Rifle Research has received dozens of questions about the spate of 'new' and 'rare' Lee-Enfields that have been showing up lately at gun shows and in pawn shops. For official references, usually the finished and issued rifle was tracked by its rack number and of course these records have long since been destroyed or lost forever. This particular rifle is from the 65C serial number block, which places it's manufacture sometime during 1943. The serial number was used more for production counting than any other reason. The link below is to a web site I created some. Refurbished SMLE rifles have had their original serial numbers struck out on the knox form (where the serial number is located on the front of the receiver- normally the right hand side) and a new one added to replace the struck off serial number, usually underneath the struck off serial number.
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