Originally Posted by -db-

Here's another piece of the puzzle:



I saw these on eBay awhile ago and saved this picture. I should have saved all of the photos but the grips were identical to, down to the bronze-colored screw, the Fitz grips we're all familiar with. The question this begs is were Fitz's wood stocks, perhaps the earliest ones, made in and imported from Germany?

Note the pencil marking found on many other Fitz grips and the notched shelf.