Inland Stock Missing Ordnance Final Acceptance Stamp AND Stocks with Knots in General

Has anyone ever seen a carbine stock where they missed applying the ordnance crossed cannons? I simply presumed it had been sanded the crud out of deep enough to completely remove the final acceptance proof? (more likely) It seems too important to miss. The stock in question is a high wood oval cut Inland with the usual IO in the slingwell BUT with a "P" proof on the bottom of the pistol grip. The "P" seems to originate with Inland's intermittent use rather than a rebuild where the other stamp has been sanded off as the carbine is still all matching and early.


Also did they really accept stocks with knot based defects in them? This is the second stock I have noticed with an egregious knot with a chunk missing but just in the butt in this case The other one had the knot right in the "highwood" and had a crack in the slide area because of it!
Or were these stocks added later (despite having passed inspection) when carbine parts were hard to find on the civilian market?

You should post a pic of the P you're seeing.

Yes, stocks with imperfections that didn't effect use were accepted. These wouldn't have been just before the war...

I know but I can't because its not mine. And cracking down the forend seems sort of major.

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Originally Posted by AD-4NA

And cracking down the forend

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Well, it wasn't cracked when it was accepted, it was fine. If it made it through a couple of battles it could be replaced. You're looking at it through the glasses of an armchair judge in peacetime 70 years later. So...I wouldn't worry about it. Obviously they were accepted.

Why not take a pic with a mobile phone and post it I am sure the rifle will not be worried about being naked besides it may be something the forumers can assist with as what you are asking is like me asking the blind man does he see the red traffic light?

Good point!
"Well, it wasn't cracked when it was accepted, it was fine"

? Again, not my carbine so I can't take pictures and I never even handled the other cracked one. No, more like do traffic lights exist if were going to go with that analogy in reference to the other matter of the final acceptance cartouches.

I do not understand you wanting to find stuff out and not give the people most qualified in the field of armaments and their repair a look at the crack it could be something totally 180 degrees in causing the crack and not the knot. BAR got it right they were good to go 70 years ago that was 70 years ago! I re-stocked my Lithgow 1945 MkIII in a spare teak stock I had and after posting pics of it one of the forumers pointed out a knot on the left side bottom wood (see attached picture) and to keep an eye on it as it may start having issues, which I thanked Peter Laidler for as I thought it was a nice feature of the stock. So I guess the answer is in one forumers reply that we will just sit back and let it develop.

Trust me traffic lights exist especially if you run an orange with a speed/stop camera on them......

Love that teak stocked rifle... It probably won't ever do anything, you keep it in good nick compared to having it in the rainstorms and trench floods of Gallipoli.