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Carbine Cartouche Inspector Stamp?
Greetings,
I just saw this cartouche on a carbine at an online auction site (Invaluable?), the 'SA' indicates a rebuild at Springfield Armory? What is the 'C'? Inspector?
Anything that doesn't look right about it?
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Do these online auction sites make any effort to keep the fakes out or are they a free for all?
I have an I cut early Inland stock on my NPM
It has an .U. Underwood rebuild stamp on it. Without the stamp it is worth a lot of money to some guy restoring an early inland. The idea being solving the puzzle and making an ersatz original carbine. The rebuild mark makes this an impossibility, so the value drops beyond half of what it would be. It isn't the kiss of death but it is close. Nobody would generally put a fake rebuild stamp on an otherwise great stock.
It helps to understand the part swapper's mindset, that a put together is somehow a "semi-original" or better than a rebuild.