Acquired last weekend, and very pleased with it. Old-spec deactivated so cocks and dry fires.

VS 249019 denoting first batch assembled at ROF Fazakerley; M/78 denoting housing manufactured by Elkington & Co., Birmingham; Butt, Mk.3 with early (pre-Feb.1945) brass Butt Plate; Butt Swivel, Mk.2 rifle-type; Sten Sling, Mk.3 hooked, Mills Equipment Company; Bayonet, No.4 Mk.3 marked M/158, manufactured by Lucas. The Butt is serial-matched to the gun and 74444 electric penciled out may suggest that it could have originally been fitted to an earlier third batch ROF Theale assembled Sten?

Martin

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