Manufactured in the early 1920s, the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Number One Mark Five was an interim step between the Number One Enfield used through World War One and the Number Four Enfield that served through World War Two. The Mark Five was intended to be both a whole new model of rifle, as well as an upgrade pattern that could be applied to Great Britain's then-extant stocks of service rifles, leaving it very close in overall configuration to earlier #1s. The hooded front sight with combination bayonet lug and clamp-on grenade launcher mount is present, though the barrel-mounted rear sight has been replaced with a two-peep folding aperture rear sight, featuring a fixed "battle" sight and a staff graduated from "2" to "14". The King George cipher, 1924 date and model mark are present on the right side of the socket, with a magazine cutoff installed on the receiver. The stock is smooth, with a matching number on the underside, an extra barrel band on the extended upper handguard, "N" marked brass disc and a brass buttplate.

Fine, with 70% of the original blue finish, showing areas of brown and gray patina, bright wear on the high points, and some scattered scratches and spotting. The stock is very good, with a number of dents and scuffs overall, as well as some deeper scratches at the toe.