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While cleaning the old grime off these buttplates,
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I happened upon one that looked not quite right,
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It's stamped......Inside out?...
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What do you think....Monday morning or Friday afternoon?
Charlie-painter777
Monday morning,or an argument with the wife any day!
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.
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.
Post war commercial is my bet. But while you have them out, do you have a late Quality and a late Rock-Ola?
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.
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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