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Old 01-08-2013, 10:35 PM
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The "4 screw" designation indicates there are three screws on the sideplate (with the right stock panel removed) and one at the front base of the trigger guard. As the previous poster noted, yours has the fourth (upper) screw on the sideplate, making yours a 5-screw.

The stocks are very interesting; these usually had a cutout on the top of the left panel to clear the extractor star, and the type without this was only made from about 1950-'53. The checkering pattern is even more interesting, as it is wider than usual. Another poster mentioned they might be a special type of Target stock called the "Coke Bottle", and they may be; these were supposedly made in very small numbers for the K frame guns, and would fit with the story of this being a special presentation gun.
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