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Re: N.C.V. history
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Can't help you with the soldier but that is a real nice Enfield and CS to the core! The number on the butt plate is the inventory number assigned to that arm prior to running the blockade. The same number was engraved on the ramrod and on the bayonet. You very seldom find matching numbers on the ramrod and butt plate since they were easily switched along the way. I have never seen one with a matching bayonet number. Look just behind the trigger guard and determine if there is a small JS and anchor stamped in the wood. Parker Field & Sons was a London gun maker. Most Enfields either came from the Birmingham small arms trade or a consortium of makers in London. Yours is a London gun and the parts should be interchangeable with other London guns. Would love to see some pictures.

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