Diamond-D marked bayonet lugs?

[deldriver]

The latest Ruth book is a revisit of the first two books along with some clarifications and corrections of them. I don't recall seeing anything about Winchester bayonet lugs being in there. All of the info I've added in this thread has come from online searches or a Carbine Club newsletter I have. However, one thing you'll find in there is the day your Winchester receiver was stamped. It may not be an exact date, but will give you a pretty accurate time range for it.

It definitely looks like your front sight is good, especially if Brian says it is. I thought it might be, but wasn't 100 percent sure.

Again, great Winchester!

[rpw7351]

Sometime back CMP was auctioning off several 7.2M Winchester carbines. They were apparently all correct EXCEPT for diamond D front bands (verified by CMP inspection). I suspect that Winchester ran out of the C marked T3s and took what it could get to complete as many guns as they could before their production was terminated. IMHO I think that these D marked T3s are probably correct for some of the late production guns.
If it looks like it's been there forever then it probably has. I'd leave it be. I wonder how many carbines have been "restored" to conform to with current "correct" thinking when in fact they were original as found.

[rokwell]

rpw7351, I think you are right, at least from what I am seeing. I have not been at this as long as many on the forum (only 5/6 years). There are a lot of people looking through the reference books, then switching out parts to make them conform to the books. Also it's probably true that an original / correct carbine may not be valued by the market as much, if it does not have all parts conforming to the books. Sort of a backwards situation, maybe these books are in part dictating the market value of carbines. It's a real possibility. In this case I paid much less than expected for this carbine, it was offered on a GB auction a few weeks ago. And, I think it may be because of the band (assuming it's original to the carbine, which I now think it is - as did the previous owner I believe). A couple years ago I developed the philosophy to not switch any parts to make a carbine 'correct', if it has the looks of an original with original finish and all wear patterns matching. Hopefully these pieces of history can make it through the coming decades- unchanged -