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All the same, it's a nice looking rifle, 5th, Andrew seems to having a big cleanout, trouble is he only offers me the dregs.
 I will admit I have been thinking along similar lines, just trying to correlate all the little details on some early Lithgows, maybe you had better help me out with the 13/14 stampings I'm asking about on Gunboards.
  Illness, old age and an uninterested adult family have me thinking that it's time I pulled all that cash back in, but it will be the rest of the world collection first.Unhappy
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Originally posted by muffett.2008 muffett.2008 wrote:

All the same, it's a nice looking rifle, 5th, Andrew seems to having a big cleanout, trouble is he only offers me the dregs.
 I will admit I have been thinking along similar lines, just trying to correlate all the little details on some early Lithgows, maybe you had better help me out with the 13/14 stampings I'm asking about on Gunboards.
  Illness, old age and an uninterested adult family have me thinking that it's time I pulled all that cash back in, but it will be the rest of the world collection first.Unhappy


Im hoping My Son will start appreciating My old rifles again..  If he dont Son in Law is already starting to eye up the Enfields !!!  LOL!!!  Its taking some time , But he is slowly starting to acquire some taste !!!!
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Sorry muffer it might have seemed that way but really it all happened very quickly. A few blokes came through and made very good offers. I only advertised one rifle and that was after everything was sold and for fun really. Ten years collecting some of the rarest lithgows gone in a few weeks, but I feel great.
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Sorry muffer it might have seemed that way but really it all happened very quickly. A few blokes came through and made very good offers. I only advertised one rifle and that was after everything was sold and for fun really. Ten years collecting some of the rarest lithgows gone in a few weeks, but I feel great.
Did you manage to get every year of manufacture?
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All but two, 1913 and 1938. Could have had both those years but the ones I came across were very poor and way too much money. Still got a nice assortment of about 30 rifles dated between 1914 and 1921, all lithgows of course and another dozen or so very nice coachwood rifles from WW2. And six Q^P's. If thats not enough enfields to enjoy, I'm kidding myself :)
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Big hiccup is if you collect Lithgows you have to be prepared to pay, it's not like they made millions like the others.
 Factor in two major wars, several police actions and the anti gun push and those not so rare years suddenly seem good, the surviving ones of the rarer years you can just about count without taking your socks off.
 Looking at the sportered ones makes me cry tears of blood.Unhappy
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All but two, 1913 and 1938. Could have had both those years but the ones I came across were very poor and way too much money. Still got a nice assortment of about 30 rifles dated between 1914 and 1921, all lithgows of course and another dozen or so very nice coachwood rifles from WW2. And six Q^P's. If thats not enough enfields to enjoy, I'm kidding myself :)
I'm trying to keep my collection (all rifles) to around 40 but i do expect it will go higher,  if i had kept all the rifles i've owned, i would have hundreds by now, have had only the one regret but have since got it back Smile
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 Looking at the sportered ones makes me cry tears of blood.Unhappy
Over here we find early matching Lithgows and other SMLE Enfields still with the volley sights deactivated because they can get more money for a wall hanger than a live one and these before deactivation still had good head space and bores. Makes one cryCry
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all this talk of downsizing makes me reflect on the joy involved in seeking out the purchases and the sorrow at parting with them , its sad our heirs dont get wise in our lifetime , 
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