A Grade 2 (G) gun, from that period, most likely had the hard rubber butt plate with the dog, showing full shoulder and legs. That said, there doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rules from different periods, to say it positively had one style versus another. I have seen two known original guns, separated by only a few serial numbers, with two different style plates. The difference in the two guns, was one was an 0 frame, the other a 2 frame.
Without saying "Never" It is extremely unlikely it had a checkered butt, because that style treatment was almost exclusively used on small bore skeet guns which didn't come out until many years later.
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