For a vintage gun, nothing looks more correct than a Silvers style pad as mentioned above. A Noshoc, Hawkins or other similar style of pad is nice too. And they have that type of shape that works for what you are looking for.
However, I understand not liking the red color. In which case, sometimes a brown or black pad will better suit.
I think that a very nice Modern pad on a classic gun is the Pachmyer Old English pad. It has a clean and classic look that is not distracting. And it is offered in the. Decelerated material to have a nice cushion.
They also offer this pad in a porting clays model which has the hard plastic insert on the top as to not catch the shirt.
Kick-eez also makes som very nice cushy pads in black color of different shapes for different types of shooting.
The particular pad you provided the link to May very well suit your needs and I will not debate that. The installation of any pad to a normal length stock will require cutting of the stock. Unless the stock is short to start with. Most pads are 1" thick. And if you like 13.5" lop, then you would have to trim It down to 12.5" at the wood. To be quite direct, this will destroy the resale value of the gun since it's chances of being put back to a normal length for another shooter have been diminished. Short of putting a 1.5" thick pad or spacers on it, which also can look odd.
The Old english pads are offered in 1/2", 3/4" and 1" thick. Maybe cutting to 13" LOP and using a .5" pad will be better since a 1" pad can always be added to bring it back out to 14" LOP.
Anyway... these are just things to consider. Obviously any pad needs to be expertly fitted to the stock for a proper installation.
One other thing to consider is the pitch of the butt on your gun. Flip the gun upside down and measure the angle of the buttplate surface. It if it striaght up and down 90 degree (or 0 pitch) that might be more of your issue. I have found that 0 pitch guns are more likely to want to slip off the shoulder than guns with maybe 3-5 degrees of pitch to them. putting some pitch on them will make the gun recoil down into the shoulder instead of off. If you have to trim the butt anyway for a pad, might want to trim it with a pitch to it. You may find that the crescent shaped pad may not be needed.
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