Strange Buttplate....

[painter777]

While cleaning the old grime off these buttplates,
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e227/Painter8439/DSC04072.jpg
I happened upon one that looked not quite right,
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e227/Painter8439/DSC04073.jpg
It's stamped......Inside out?...
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e227/Painter8439/DSC04075.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e227/Painter8439/DSC04077.jpg
What do you think....Monday morning or Friday afternoon?

Charlie-painter777

[Hank Stone]

Monday morning,or an argument with the wife any day!

[JimF4M1s]

Charlie, you find some interesting stuff.

I don't know if they were a 1 press operation or not. Maybe it was 1 press for the pattern and another for the edge, and somehow that one flipped over.

I hadn't seen that before.

[Bubba-7]

I have had one or two of those over the years. Thought they were made overseas as replacement parts. I never thought they could have been a mistake but possible.

[Bill Hollinger]

Post war commercial is my bet. But while you have them out, do you have a late Quality and a late Rock-Ola?

[Bill Ricca]

I found a couple over the years in batches of GI Buttplates. They are not commercial. My guess is either a production error, or a very late small contract. The reason I say the second option is possible is because there was a very small M14 contract for Garand buttplates which had inward dimples. It was a short production during the early days of the M14, to supplement the shortage of flapper type buttplates during rifle production. The buttplate used a hard rubber type spacer.

http://www.billricca.com/trans/Inward_Dimples_Reduced_size.jpg

http://www.billricca.com/trans/buttplatespacer.jpg

[wtmr]

I have one original carbine with reversed buttplate stamping, it just shows that was a two step process I guess, you can tell from butt implant into rear of stock was only buttplate ever on it