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What do the markings such as Mk IV, Mk III etc mean???? Whinch ones are more rare?? More valuable?? Give me some info guys!!!!!
The No.1 MkIII (SMLE, or Short Magazine Lee-Enfield is the older designation) was also used by the Canadians, South Africans, Australians and New Zealanders during WW2 as well (and made during that war).
Let's not forget the ultimate refinement of the Lee-Enfield!
Gibbs, aka "Fibbs", was infamous for creating variants of the Lee-Enfield that never existed, or existed in prototype form only, for the simple purpose of selling rifles. The Australians experimented with a shortened NoIMkIII, but it never went very far. The Indian-made Ishapore 2A was a copy of the NoIMkIII rifle, albeit using a better grade of steel, and chambered in .308 Winchester. Those guns are just fine the way they are, as delivered by the Indian armories.. But Gibbs saw fit to chop and rebuild a bunch of them into a .308 "tanker" or "Jungle Carbine" version, without really letting people know these weren't real, as-issued collectibles.
That would be an Ishapore made rifle. A good rifle, but not anything super rare."G.R.I. No.I Mk.III ENGLAND."