This is written on a 1910 No 1 Mark III...updated to III* at some point. DP marked on receiver, barrel, nose cap, and trigger guard. Bore looks good...bolt doesn't close on my field gauge....who knows. Just curious what the writing says, and am I right that it's Arabic.
no, but it is Arabic,or at least from my coin books, characters appear the same. Enfields were used all over the middle east from WWI thru recent history until the Kalashnikov appeared
Don't think this will help, but it's worth a look. There are other translation sites too.
https://translate.google.ca/
"...DP marked on receiver..." Usually means it's unsafe to shoot. However, rifles were DP'd for a myriad of reasons. Beat up No. 1's, Khyber Pass made, Indian, Brit, Australian and New Zealand rifles are still turning up in assorted searches.
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Thanks I'll try it. Hoping writing would ID country it's been to.
Numbers painted on stock appear to be 122. However that would be the same in either Farsi (Iran) or Arabic-Egypt (most other mid east counties). How ever the numbers on disk are 114 the #four (backwards E) is defiantly Arabic/Egypt so it looks like it could be from one of many mid-east countries. My guess would be Iraq. The Brit's sold Iraq many, under a contract with BSA in the late 30's. Mine is dated 1939.
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