Kevin, we occasionally see carved or decorated gun stocks and a great many of them were poorly done, only rarely seeing one as deeply and intricately carved as yours. IMO it was designed, laid out and carved by a professional furniture maker or gunstock maker trained in the old-style of Germanic or Black Forest ways. If your great grandfather was such a man then so be it, it may be his work. In any case, I think it is an extremely nice feature that offsets an otherwisw mediocre gun.
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