Carbine Cartouche Inspector Stamp?

[scubatke]

OK, considering that there are very few carbines that weren't re-built I was thinking he was saying it was something more than that.

Because it show the carbine has been through a rebuild which would make it NOT original anymore.

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[DaveHH]

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.