I had read somewhere that even when a gun was ordered from Parker Bros with "no butt" or some such wording because the owner wished to do his own measuring and install his own soft rubber pad, Parker Bros would still send the gun out with a checkered butt. Probably because they might have refused to send a gun out of the shop in an 'unfinished' condition. I don't know this to be fact but as I said, I did read it somewhere.
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