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 steel forearm cap/bayonet lug with integral front sight wings and mounting point for a 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, and a magazine cutoff is installed on the receiver. The stock is smooth, with a matching number on the underside, an extra barrel band on the extended upper handguard, canvas sling and a brass buttplate.

Very good, with 40% of the arsenal blue finish, showing areas of brown patina, mild edge wear and scattered spotting. The elevating rear peep is threaded for an insert, which is not present. The stock is also very good, with a number of scratches and scuffs and a disc absent from the buttstock. Mechanically excellent.