I saw that. I have examined carefully with naked eye, magnifying glass, held a small bore light at all angles, done all that with the glass, etc. I cannot convince myself that is anything but the tooling or gouging required to fit the trigger guard into the stock. Obvious this was hand fit and not milled out as a modern one would be. Guard fits perfectly flush to the wood, not sunken at all, and I cannot detect the most minute trace of another number having been there. My original thought was this stock was maybe scavenged from another gun?
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