My '43 Savage

[Clash77]

A couple weeks ago I picked up this Savage No.4 Mk1* at a gunshow for a very reasonable $250. All it was missing was the magazine, which I've located and is on the way.
Almost everything metal is stamped with the Savage square "S" and the bolt, receiver, forestock are all match. Both handguards are stamped for Savage (the rear one has an different version of the S stamp) US ordinance bomb stamps throughout and a Crown stamp on the receiver ring and bolt handle. On the right side of the wrist it has partial stamps that look like remnants of an O and and X possibly.
The buttstock has a double struck FR stamp(another form of the FTR stamp?), zink(?) buttplate, and the Savage S inside a circle next to the letters CAS.
Overall it strikes me as a run of the mill Savage No.4 except it seemed odd to me that the sidewall of the forestock is shortened for a magazine cutoff. Right on top of that part it has an H and a 7 stamped there.

Thoughts anyone?

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