Fine Checkering on Mark I Buttplate?

**DeputyBill** · 04-22-2011 02:40 PM

Could a Mark I stock feature a (finely) checkered buttplate and be correct as original?

I've seen one online and wasn't sure if it had been changed. If it is correct, it looks like it would be a nice stock for a high numbered Mark I, IMHO.
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**Mike D** · 04-22-2011 03:27 PM

As far as I know (not far), checkered BP's started being used in 1910. During WWI, BP's went back to smooth to save manufacture time, etc., then checkering started again afterward. It would seem that a checkered BP would be correct for a late Mark I.

**musketshooter** · 04-22-2011 05:30 PM

Probabaly not. I doubt that the production of checkered butt plates resumed in 1918 since the war ended in November. If the barrel date on the rifle is December 1918, it is possible but not likely. I have two completely original Mk1s, one dated 1918 and the other 1919 and neither has a checkered butt plate.

**DeputyBill** · 04-22-2011 06:27 PM

Btw, the Mark I stock is not mated to it's original bbl'd action.
I don't know what the "norm" is in Canada icon

but, $940 (US) seems WAY high.

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-Bill

**John Beard** · 04-22-2011 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by DeputyBill

Could a Mark I stock feature a (finely) checkered buttplate and be correct as original?

I've seen one online and wasn't sure if it had been changed. If it is correct, it looks like it would be a nice stock for a high numbered Mark I, IMHO.
Thanks.

No. Mark I rifles did not originally have checkered buttplates.

J.B.

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