The forend looks to be original but the buttstock is a replacement and wasn't done true to an original buttstock.
The engraving appears original and likely done to order. The standard engraving for a Grade 4 of that late period would have had dogs, as you know, and likely would have had gamebirds or an antlered animal on the floor plate.
And I don't recognize that style of engraving with the stippling in void spaces as being that of Robert P. Runge. Perhaps it was done by Charles Forrest who came on in 1937 but I don't know if he went to Ilion when Remington moved the Parker Gun operation there.
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