Well bros you failed to mention that in your first post, or else I over looked it. I'm not the one you should be asking about this as there are others here what know way more that I do. My speculations are if it has a scope number on the wrist then it must be as Roger says, the T was lightly struck and hard to make out, or, it was refinished at some point and the T partly obliterated and covered over in the process , or, some previous owner hunted up a scope then in the attempt to ''improve'' things stamped the number on the wrist to make it appear to be a matching set. Pictures of the rifle and scope when it arrives would be a big help in figuring out which case it is.