Frankenstein, in case you are wondering a commercial example (and 1937 Brazilian example) exhibiting physical traits such as yours I feel would have NORMALLY left the factory wearing checkered walnut stocks with silver medallions.
Both my commercial model and Brazilian 1937 have similar commercial traits as your example and they have s/n matching stocks which are checkered walnut with silver medallions (Unfortunately both my commercial and Brazilian M1917 were refinished prior to me owning them..........but funny enough they do still have their numbers matching stocks.)
Of course only a letter from S&W will give you absolute certainty with regards to the stocks that were on it when it left the factory. Sometimes things got built and shipped out of expected normal time sequence so anything can happen.
If it were mine I would attempt to locate a set of correct era stocks and a lanyard ring. For those of us who enjoy the minutia of the M1917 it is definitely a conversation piece.
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