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Originally Posted by illini24
Hondo yes the stocks are cokes the sn is stamped into them not penciled does that have any meaning
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Stocks were originally stamped in the 19th century, penciled in the 20th until 1929, then stamped again until they were no longer numbered in the late 1970's.
It's more meaningful that they are numbered to the gun at all! Another clue that they were special ordered for the gun. Very unusual for target stocks to be numbered because they take much less individual fitting (only the backstrap) and don't have to be fitted specific to each gun.