JLG butt stock 007 wood area below "horseshoe" with "hickey" mark
In person and via photography, verified and corroborated with the most trustworthy, heavily credentialed, senior, and sane collectors I know--about a half dozen of them!!--that this "last cartouche" (the DAS is NOT a cartouche--no writing or letters! Check a dictionary for the old "Egyptian" correct definition and its basis if you doubt that... ) butt stock is authentic, albeit it's been sanded. Not too many dings. No cracks, no paint, weird Danish or other stampings...
The metal will be removed before I dump it for something I actually need.
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Humorously, years ago I got a very nice M1 ( an old D.C.M. gun with full paperwork) marked "JLG" generally in the cartouche area, on a nice replacement walnut stock, probably an Overton-produced unit. Not a "cartouche", just the letters. Not the right size, no box... Puzzled, I realized the same initials appeared on some other items I acquired from the estate. It was the INITIALS of the deceased, who was an avid shooter. Under the buttplate on that one was his social security number.
Weirdly, this was about the very LAST item I was looking for or wanted when I stumbled across this, and upon cleanup, contacted the network of "usual suspects" because I no longer trust my eyesight on wood. Looking back, I doubt if I've seen two dozen of these. They're fairly close to being the least common of the letter cartouched butt stocks.
Last one I had was on an old D.C.M. rifle, from an estate, and had been surmarked with a DAS (Defense Acceptance Stamp). It, too, was absolutely authentic, and appeared on an all original rifle right in that low 4 million area where one would figure such things might've happened.
Anyway, it's a certainty. Not some loudmouth's assertion or slimy internet "proof"!! Strange find. There are handguards with it which "color matched", but I remain unconvinced they're "correct" to it, and I have other uses for them, anyway.
Weirdest one I had: What a serious student of military wood told me was a pre-1940 hunk of wood, almost "new", but with an absolutely authentic JLG cartouche. Apparently it fascinated him. He insisted upon having it IMMEDIATELY. Most of the assclowns on forums suggested it was a "fake"...nope, wrong again. It must've sat around for a long time before it got kicked out the door, and NO ONE will ever know how or why, but we do know WHERE that happened: At the Armory, in Springfield, Massachusetts. And the "when" would be while Guion's stamp was still in use.
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JLG butt stock 007 wood area below "horseshoe" with "hickey" mark
In person and via photography, verified and corroborated with the most trustworthy, heavily credentialed, senior, and sane collectors I know--about a half dozen of them!!--that this "last cartouche" (the DAS is NOT a cartouche--no writing or letters! Check a dictionary for the old "Egyptian" correct definition and its basis if you doubt that... ) butt stock is authentic, albeit it's been sanded. Not too many dings. No cracks, no paint, weird Danish or other stampings...
The metal will be removed before I dump it for something I actually need.
More detail of the letters is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/15631192@N04/27538894973/in/photost...
Sign in so these can be worked with, enlarged, and so on, if you're looking for information.
See adjacent shots for images of the detailed markings, closeup and overall.
Copyrighted shot, not "free" or "public domain".
All rights reserved.
Humorously, years ago I got a very nice M1 ( an old D.C.M. gun with full paperwork) marked "JLG" generally in the cartouche area, on a nice replacement walnut stock, probably an Overton-produced unit. Not a "cartouche", just the letters. Not the right size, no box... Puzzled, I realized the same initials appeared on some other items I acquired from the estate. It was the INITIALS of the deceased, who was an avid shooter. Under the buttplate on that one was his social security number.
Weirdly, this was about the very LAST item I was looking for or wanted when I stumbled across this, and upon cleanup, contacted the network of "usual suspects" because I no longer trust my eyesight on wood. Looking back, I doubt if I've seen two dozen of these. They're fairly close to being the least common of the letter cartouched butt stocks.
Last one I had was on an old D.C.M. rifle, from an estate, and had been surmarked with a DAS (Defense Acceptance Stamp). It, too, was absolutely authentic, and appeared on an all original rifle right in that low 4 million area where one would figure such things might've happened.
Anyway, it's a certainty. Not some loudmouth's assertion or slimy internet "proof"!! Strange find. There are handguards with it which "color matched", but I remain unconvinced they're "correct" to it, and I have other uses for them, anyway.
Weirdest one I had: What a serious student of military wood told me was a pre-1940 hunk of wood, almost "new", but with an absolutely authentic JLG cartouche. Apparently it fascinated him. He insisted upon having it IMMEDIATELY. Most of the assclowns on forums suggested it was a "fake"...nope, wrong again. It must've sat around for a long time before it got kicked out the door, and NO ONE will ever know how or why, but we do know WHERE that happened: At the Armory, in Springfield, Massachusetts. And the "when" would be while Guion's stamp was still in use.
Authenticated and copyrighted photo. All rights reserved. No reference use or reproduction of any kind without express written permission. Criminal and civil statutes and all rights law WILL be enforced.