Dan

You are absolutely right. And I would make a large wager that
if one requested a letter for a round-butt from this era, say a serial
number in the 650,000 or so, it would letter as a 1905, and not a 1902.

Everyone - everyone - knows that a round butt is not a model of
1905, but rather a model of 1902. And furthermore, I do not believe
that there was ever a time when a round butt was referred to as a
round-butt 1905 !

And much furthermore, if the hand-written shipping ledger entry for
this gun indicated that it was a 1905, I would wager that that was an
error created by someone who simply didn't know any better.

Regards, Mike