Pad
 

No sir, all I know is pad I replaced was on it a long time and hard as a rock. I am trying to back trace history on gun, appears to be a gun from my area.

the seriallization book has this gun wrong T13 H 2 S 12 32

Post
 

See Chuck’s post on 7-14, it explains it.

Thats what thats all about ! I see now LOL

The engraving on the strap looks like the ‘standard’ grade 3 engraving.





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Yes, curious as to what the specially marked guard reference is about. Not much out of the ordinary about that guard as we can see.

Guard
 

Wish I knew also, even removed guard to look underneath but only found serial number. Maybe for that era it was slightly more engraving, did note from letter apparently no extra charge like it was for checkering.