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Marking ID help

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Topic: Marking ID help

Posted By: Surp44
Subject: Marking ID help
Date Posted: January 10 2026 at 9:31am

I just bought this No. 4 MK 1 and need some head reading the markings to learn its history

The markings on the receiver are
A 69
AZ 11297

There’s no date anywhere on the rifle I can find

There’s also several numbers on the bottom of the magazine that have been crossed out except for the rifles serial no.

Thanks for the help

Replies:

Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: January 10 2026 at 2:19pm

With an AZ prefix it must be a Royal Ordnance Factory Maltby manufactured rifle. There should be a date stamped on the butt socket.

Posted By: Surp44
Date Posted: January 10 2026 at 2:47pm

No date on buttock plate that I can find, but just found a very very faint and shallow 1943 stamp just above the serial no. Prefix

Posted By: DisasterDog
Date Posted: January 10 2026 at 4:31pm

The first digit being a 1 also says Maltby.