i meant no disrespect to the seller or his offering. The rifle looks fine and I am sure that someone expecting to get that much money for a rifle will not misrepresent it. It is what it is and it looks great to me.

I have not seen that many T rifles offered as a full kit. Seems they are worth more broken down and sold off as parts. That's also true of M1D and M1C rifles it seems.

My hat's off to the seller for making available a complete kit for some other collector to place in his collection. A darned hard item to find in that condition. I simply offered an opinion based on owning these for several decades.