I was pleasantly surprised to find this inside my newly-purchased "Springfield 1903 Rifles"...
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...29678673-1.jpg
It reads:
"To Don Stika-
with the best wishes of
the author, and with thanks
for your friendship-
William S. Brophy
7 June 1986"
*Donald W. Stika, a WWII marine veteran, was an antique arms dealer.
