You know what they say about provenance - if you do not have it, you cannot claim it. Unfortunately, all the speculation about how it might have happened does not change the fact that the stocks do not match the gun. If ever sold in a public auction, one cannot attest to matching stocks.

Many guns got target stocks at the dealers who sold these guns. The big gun shops got large orders that could well have contained both those serial numbers and would not have cared about matching stocks in the 1940s & 1950s. When they changed a set of target stocks, they would not have thrown away the brand new set of Magnas. If some in the shipment had damaged stocks, the dealer would have grabbed a pair from the spare parts drawer and stuck them on.

I have seen stocks that are one number apart from the gun or with transposed "9" and "6", but your gun does shows half of the numbers different. One thing for certain is that most would not claim them as factory originals.

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Gary
SWCA 2515