Lend-Lease involved U.S. military stores we shipped to England, not privately owned commercial sporting arms. Oft times people confuse that with the program by which private parties donated small arms to the British cause, primarily for use by their Home Guard after the Dunkirk evacuation when the British Army had to abandon most of their stuff and it looked for all the world like Hitler would soon invade, with the vague promise that they would be returned after the cessation of hostilities. Not very many made it back over here. I understand a lot of them got dumped in the Atlantic after the war for reasons best known to them at the time. Still in all, a 99 with the provenance of Home Guard issue would be a sweet addition to anyone's collection. (Were I a middle aged shop keeper in a London Home Guard battalion, I would have wept for joy if they put a Savage in my hands instead of a pitchfork.)
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