Bought this 6.3 million late war Inland yesterday from a local seller. All parts are Inland coded and it appears to be original. The interesting thing is that someone wrote the serial number with red grease pencil on the right side of the buttstock. It wasn't noticeable until I applied some raw linseed oilicon, then the numbering popped out.



Auto manufacturers did (still do?) this type of marking at the factory during the assembly process. Perhaps this is something that Inland (a division of General Motors) did during manufacturing? It sure would be easier to see the big red grease pencil numbers for tracking purposes as the carbine went around the factory during assembly, sighting in, inspection, etc. rather than trying to read the small numbers on the receiver.
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