WW2 British Sten MK II 9mm SMG By SECO S109 (Sterling Eng Co, Dagenham), Magazine By E & Co (Elkington & Company) With Removable Skeleton Stock, Rare To Find Original Replacement Pistol Grip & MK 1 Spike Bayonet With Scabbard & Sling**EARLY UK DEACT** Sn 21681:2 None Machine Guns

WW2 British Sten MK II 9mm SMG By SECO S109 (Sterling Eng Co, Dagenham), Magazine By E & Co (Elkington & Company) With Removable Skeleton Stock, Rare To Find Original Replacement Pistol Grip & MK 1 Spike Bayonet With Scabbard & Sling**EARLY UK DEACT** - 21681:2

The 9mm Sten was mass produced from pressed metal parts as an urgent production for the British War effort. The British Army has a long held penchant for the bayonet and the MkII STEN was the first British Machine Carbine to fit one. Three companies made some 75,800 MkI STEN gun bayonets, these companies were: Grundy Ltd of Toddington, Lines Brothers of Merton and N.J. Edwards Ltd of Sutton. The vast majority of these were scrapped when it became obvious they were unnecessary and all but useless in combat. The STEN was far from an ideal bayonet fighting weapon. The Mk I Spike bayonet was as cheaply made as the gun it was made for. Consisting of several pieces of welded steel it was fixed to the STEN by a spring clip with a detent at the end which indexed with one of the holes in the STEN’s barrel nut / shroud (illustrated in image 1 is a contemporary photograph, taken August 1942, of a British officer armed with a MK II STEN equipped with a MK I spike bayonet. This is a great condition WW2 Mk II Sten Sub Machine Gun. Deactivated to very early UK specification in 1989 this MK II weapon cocks & dry fires. It has the manufacturer's stamp 'SECO & S109' which is the British war time code for Sterling Engineering Co, Dagenham, Essex, together with serial number EK93494 stamped on the magazine housing (illustrated). The top of the housing is stamped ' Sten Mk II'. It is complete with an original magazine stamped by the maker ‘E&Co’ (Elkington & Co) and original webbing sling. The weapon also comes with an excellent original MK I sten gun spiked bayonet with correct spring clip fastener, pig sticker spiked blade and scabbard (there are no visible maker or date marks on the bayonet or scabbard). Also with the SMG is an original replacement pistol grip easily attached to the gun by depression of a button at the rear of the action, which also facilitates removal of the skeleton stock. The price for this excellent rare to find Sten gun set includes UK delivery and deactivation certificate. Sn 21681:2

£1,745.00