Dean, as further trivia and perhaps not of interest to most, is that Fajen/Bishop/ bought and Wenig /Gemmes still buy their Juglas nigra blanks from St Joe Walnut in St Joseph MO, which also sold local northern Missouri and Iowa walnut blanks to Parker Bros. Just as in the Meridan days, there are some wonderful pieces of air dried highly figured stump walnut that come from this region.
I believe it likely that many of if not most of the utilitarian V grade type stocks we see as replacements came as rough cut, inletted stocks from Fajen/Bishops. They did very well during the 50's and 60's with sporter stocks for all the war surplus 1903 Springfields being sold....remember the NRA ads for surplus 03's, what were they $20? Bill would know. There were also 30 Cal Carbine stocks when they were surplused out. My dad bought a Spanish American War era Krag with a Bishop stock and hunted deer when we lived in SoDak.
They made a lot of replacement stocks for M. 12's and those beavertail forends to replace the corn cob forends. The Parker replacement stocks I've seen had the deep angled thumb grooves like the replacement M 12 stocks. While its easy to tell that these are not original Parker stocks, they were certainly utilitarian and not costly , and I think they might have preserved many Parkers for use today that might have been discarded and lost because of broken stocks, high drop, or other features that owners found undesireable.
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