I just got my CMPicon IBM carbine (pictured below), and I'm one of those 'frozen' about re-correcting (if that's a word) it. I'd like to, but I want to avoid two things: (1) paying thru the nose, and (2) feeling like a doofus if I were to brag about a "great find" that was anything but.

I first got frozen like this over doing the same for my CMP 11/41 Garandicon.

Is there a central source(s) of real-original stamp pictures for folks like me to which we compare the claimed-original we're looking at? As a rookie, it's very hard to know who to trust (but I trust this forum).

And it's not all about me: the honest folks selling original parts suffer, because guys like me who'd like to buy are holding back.

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