6/23/2023 0 Comments 1917 enfield eddystone valueIt is a shame that TV comedy has branded them forever as a band of bungling geriatrics. The majority of British red-banded Enfields went to the Home Guard, and at least 615,000 and perhaps all of them weren't lent but purchased, probably at a very neighbourly price, as there was no Lend-lease until 1941. If it belonged with the rifle, and especially if it is serial numbered, you could replace that last little bit of wood along a line where the junction with the red paint would make the join line inconspicuous. You can get an original one from S&S Firearms. Originality is now well worth preserving on an unaltered M1917, so I wouldn't think of replacing the handguard unless I thought it was a replacement. I don't know if the handguard was stamped with the serial too, but you should look for traces of the paint in the pores of the forend. The trouble is, in those I have seen it went around the forend, and here it looks like it is only on the handguard, which therefore might be a replacement. That is true about the red band being British - or possibly Canadian, though I haven't heard that.
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