Can you get a letter on it John? That would be the only way to validate that forend.
That said, it looks quite original to me but would certainly have to have been made like that by ‘special order’ as the shaping of the wood is not like other SBT forends I have seen.
However - the cutout in the wood for the forend iron appears to be too long for the iron... leaving me to wonder...?
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