Thread: Another Enfield

As to the markings, the E on the knoxform is for enfield rifling so she is intended for smokeless rounds, an M would mean metford and black powder.
The NZ 99 is the year of acceptance into the NZ army 1899 the 4561 is its acceptance no. Over 5000 of these came here between 1898 and 1901 some went to South Africa but most were for training here.
The two broad arrows head to head are the sold out of service mark sometimes seen with an s above and below.
She was originally a mk 111 martini class 1 (frontline) made in 1880 and in 1896 was converted to martini enfield again class 1.
This entailed changing the woodwork, barrel, extractor and most probably fitting a new block as by then they had figured out the dovetail conversion of the original block wasnt quite up to it.
Thats about it from the photos is it stamped anywhere else, a lot of these have home guard stamps prefixed HG x where x is a number for the district. Interesting bit of history.
Oh the 1863 on the left hand side is its original serial no as a martini henry.