Strange Stamp

[painter777]

Well you do know the stock has been replaced, possibly done at the Armory level with 'spare parts' stock.

Wondering if the barrel and receiver are original mates.
NPM used many barrels. If that U barrel is original to the NPM receiver it would have what we call the NPM punch mark near the P proof stamp on the barrel.

Note Pictures by fellow member mpd1978 showing the NPM punch mark (proof)....

Help needed for correct barrel for NPM

Cheers,
Charlie-Painter777

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[Mattwood440]

Well you do know the stock has been replaced, possibly done at the Armory level with 'spare parts' stock.

Wondering if the barrel and receiver are original mates.
NPM used many barrels. If that U barrel is original to the NPM receiver it would have what we call the NPM punch mark near the P proof stamp on the barrel.

Note Pictures by fellow member mpd1978 showing the NPM punch mark (proof)....

Help needed for correct barrel for NPM

Cheers,
Charlie-Painter777

Well it has something. Looks more like a T to me. Maybe the P and the punch got smooshed together. What do you think?

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[Mattwood440]

Why does the sight have these weird tooling gouges? It says EU with the U being really faint.

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[Mattwood440]

The trigger group says SG. There a "No" on the slide. The rear sight is post war. Most of these parts I know are post war mixes. I was mistaken on the handguard, it's a Q-RMC.

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[CrossedCannons]

Well it has something. Looks more like a T to me. Maybe the P and the punch got smooshed together. What do you think?

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Looks like a "P" to me, but your "P" has serifs. Did Underwood use serifs? I don't know, but all my Underwood examples wear non-serif P's. I think that sometimes fonts changed during production (size for sure but I don't know about type). Hopefully somebody who really knows their Underwood proofs will add

[Mattwood440]

Looks like a "P" to me, but your "P" has serifs. Did Underwood use serifs? I don't know, but all my Underwood examples wear non-serif P's. I think that sometimes fonts changed during production (size for sure but I don't know about type). Hopefully somebody who really knows their Underwood proofs will add

I see it. Good catch!