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Sounds like War Baby is a book I should own! Thank you for all the comments and tips.

Understood, thank you. Saw a really rough Winchester M1 Carbine today in local gun shop. Was actually surprised they had one, but no sling, beat up stock, about a foot long stamped series of...

As viewed from the side (as in the website photo mentioned above) it would appear as a vertical line on the right side. Looking at it from the top, it's more like "a step" in that long trigger tang....

Maniac: No, I don't see any blue-green ink stamp inside the stock.
USGI: I don't know about the trigger, it's all new to me. I disassembled it for the photos and to document what it is. Now...

I just took the hammer/spring/and sear out and snapped a picture of the trigger top: S'G'. From reading, that's one of the two triggers that would be seen on an unmolested original.

What led...

Started taking it apart today to see and photograph what parts it has.

Here are the photos, TenOC

Yes you are right: Can see a very faint SG in a square box, just behind the RH wrist. Thank you for pointing that out, I hadn't known what to look for, or at. No, I didn't pick the rifle up...

I recently inherited Dad's M1 Carbine. I owe my sisters some monetary exchange fairness, and so am trying to determine a good "if I sold it" value (even though not selling it).

Until yesterday...