Need help identifying this #1 Rolling Block

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tjack
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Re: Need help identifying this #1 Rolling Block

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Your rifle appears to be the standard later model Remington export rifle. The were sold to any number of Central and South American countries as well as Caribbean nations. Most of these did not mark their rifles so it is just about impossible to ID were this rifle went or who used it.
Nice looking rifle!!
tjack
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Re: Need help identifying this #1 Rolling Block

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Remington did not put much of any markings on their Rolling Blocks. Name and address on the tang, proof marks on the barrel and assembly #s on the sides of the tangs. No serial #s. I guess at the time there was no anticipation that they would return. As Latin America primarily used the 11mm Spanish cartridge and Egypt used the 11mm Egyptian cartridge and the two were not likely to cross paths, they were not marked as to caliber. Latin American-used Rolling Blocks frequently come back with "trench art" of some form on the wood. I have one with a neatly bayonet-carved gallows with a rope. In my opinion it adds character.
Enjoy your rifle!
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