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Originally Posted by Mills Morrison
Could be, but wouldn't there be a screw or something on the opposite side of the stock?
The initials could have worn off some time ago
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maybe not
if the repairer thought he got enough bite with the screw into the opposite wood without breaking through the other panel
OR - there is some anchor piece embedded inside -
- then there would only be one side to cover
never underestimate the ingenuity of the handymen and local smiths that worked back in the day of repairing things not tossing them out