Inspection Stamp Quiz

[Ramboueille]

How about original stocks that have been restamped ?

Same as being almost pregnant.

[Bill Hollinger]

Rick has a comment for that! He He He!!!

[Rick B]

Rick has a comment for that! He He He!!!

MEEE?




Rick B

[Eugene Onegin]

Elaborate please .

Same as being almost pregnant.

[Rick B]

Elaborate please .

Actually the term is Half Pregnant and it means No such thing, either you are or your aren't.

But in the case of the newly stamped NFR's along side of the GAW's, I and many others are on the track that when George A. Wood { GAW } died that Norman F. Ramsey { NFR } stamped both stamps. Not sure if it was a tribute for a day or so, or that they came on board with many rifles stamped GAW and re-tested them. I have documented quite a few of these and they are almost always in mint shape. Rick B

[gmerkt]

Thanks for the education. The trouble for me is, I won't be able to remember all those finer points without the two pictures side by side for comparison. I suppose I could make prints and carry them around with me, etc.

This makes the whole idea of what is a "correct" M1 Rifle all the more problematic. It's a shame that a select few sharp individuals get greedy and spoil some of the fun. By "sharp" I mean that in the old sense, as in "sharp business practices" which formerly were thought to be unethical. In this matter, they've got beyond unethical.

In my own case, I have five M1 Rifles, and only one would rate being correct and since it is a post-Korean war piece, the monetary impetus to fake it's markings are considerably less. The others, while nice enough, have issues that preclude them from being "correct."

It's a shame that a guy has to have bought a rifle 20 years ago for it to "probably be good." This kind of fakery and worse happened with collectible German stuff a long time ago. It makes me wary of all of it, and I'm glad that I buy stuff that isn't "high end" as it is less apt to have problems with fakery.

Since some of the culprits are known, it's a shame that they cannot be unmasked. But then again, with the fake stamps being distributed freely now, there must be a great many culprits around. One of the (good, in my opinion) guys who does M1 work for pay does cartouching, but he brands the stocks in the barrel channel. Still, some of those might change hands without the stock being taken down.

[jmoore]

My GAW/NFR stock was anything BUT mint when I rescued it from a pile of generally trashed stocks at a local Army/Navy store back in the eighties. It was split right through the markings and by the time it was sorted the markings were about gone. (Of course, it cost all of $5 back then, so who really cared... ) They're both still there if you look very closely and I have no intention of "improving" them, but its happily living on a good, fairly accurate rifle. The stupid thing was that at the time I had no idea that all those stamps were time specific beyond the fact that a "DoD" stamp meant 1950's or later vintage wood.

ETA I really don't remember TWO sets of crossed cannons, though. Gotta go look when I get home, iff'n I remembers--

[Rick B]

Here is a quick one for GAW comparisons. Which are real? Rick B

[mannparks]

rick, i'll be bold and say none are correct--charles

[Rick B]

rick, i'll be bold and say none are correct--charles

That answer is incorrect. Try again Rick B