Quote Originally Posted by bernie-attorney View Post
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.
It's an excellent question ….

If the Moderators and Advisory Panelicon of folks who handle the U.S. rifle forums here. put together a collage of markings and stamps which they authenticate as original, we'd be pleased to create a Knowledge Libraryicon entry for on-going reference, as well as "sticky" thread at the top of the appropriate forums.

We do it now extensively for the Enfield and Germanicon rifle forums where we have lots of "all correct" examples, but we don't have a lot in the way of authenticated U.S. rifle examples.

Regards,
Badger