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I bought this and it arrive today, needs to be cleaned up but looks like a nice stock.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=315998414

Can anyone make out what this says?

R.G. Goldsborough is my guess.

I see "R.G. Golds bavau" or maybe just "R.G. Goldsbavau".

I played around on the US Census website but neither of these spelling popped up in their list of surnames with >100 people.

Could it be a phonetic attempt at spelling? In other words, if it was a misspelling what would sound similar?

Thanks, I'm still trying to run down the name. There were a couple of gunsmiths named "Goldsborough" in Dover, Indiana back in the 1860's but have no idea if there is any connection.

I may learn about the maker before I get all the masking tape of the stock, what a mess.

The 'R' could be a 'P'
What is seen there as the slanted leg that is the difference in the two letters could be nothing more than the movement of the pen (pencil) dragging a bit from the completion of a P and moving over to begin writing the G.

The 'G' initial is very distinctive. The long horizontal & verticle bar parts of the letter are there,,though very faint where they meet.

If the next letter is a 'G' ('G'oldsxxxx),,that letter doesn't look at all like previous 'G'. It almost looks like a 'C' with a sort of stumble to the writing at the bottom of the curl.
That same stumble could as easily account for a poorly written 'G' I suppose. But it's just some things I saw.

Not easy writing on a piece of tape while it's on the side of a stock either lying in your lap, on a bench or holding it in your other hand.

Maybe the 6044 is the last 4 of the ser# of the bbl'd action that came out of it. Separated for whatever reason (repair),,just never made it back.

Most gunsmiths accumulations end up with stocks w/o the metal and actions w/o the wood. Perhaps it is one and the info is a customers name.

Thanks, I'm not ruling anything out because it's all I have. I bid on the stock because I thought I had seen the layout and checkering pattern before, time will tell.


I'll post better pictures later.

My guess - R. G. Cold(s?)bavaugh. --- John Can.