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Here is another rifle up for auction: .303 B.S.A. & M. Co. Lee-Speed Bolt-Action Sporting Rifle Retailed By Henry Atkin, 24¼ ins barrel with engine-turned rib, protected blade, leaf and tangent sights, the receiver cover with some blued finish inscribed Henry Atkin (From Purdey's) 2 Jermyn Street Haymarket London S.W., engraved 10 shot magazine, Prince of Wales stock (partial crack r/h wrist), steel butt plate, no. 665
Lee-Speed Auction
And this one: B.S.A. CO. A .303 (BRIT.) 'LEE-SPEED' BOLT-MAGAZINE SPORTING RIFLE, serial no. 15402, circa 1920, 25in. nitro reproved barrel (in 2025), standing notch rear-sight marked for 100 yards, two folding leaf sights marked for 200 and 300 yards, and with elevating ladder sight, block and blade fore-sight, barrel marked 'PROVED & SIGHTED FOR THE MARK VII .303 HIGH VELOCITY CARTRIDGE.', the nocksform marked with the B.S.A. trademark, blued receiver, no safety, magazine cut-off removed, turned down half-round bolt, detachable box magazine, figured pistolgrip halfstock, pistolgrip-cap, horn fore-end finial, sling eyes, 14in. pull including steel buttplate with central trapdoor, weight 6lb. 12oz. S1 - Sold as a Section 1 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act
Another Lee-Speed
Very nice indeed........I wish!
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