About 18 years ago I was involved in the manufacture of Ithaca Classic Doubles. At that time management wanted a buttplate similar to the Ithaca plates but one that reflected the ICD logo. After getting a price of 10K to make a single compression mold to duplicate a hard rubber buttplate in England, it was decided to have a mold master made of brass in Italy for 3K from which rubber molds could be made for 20-25 dollars each. Based on 1999 prices you would need 50K to make the tooling necessary to duplicate the minimum of hard rubber buttplates for Parker shotguns. Finally Brian is right about the urethane buttplates, I threw an ICD reject buttplate onto the cement floor as hard as I could and it didn't even chip. Now you decide whats best.
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