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Now he is using a grip cap and running a border around the checkering on top but still running the bottom checkering into the hole.  
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I know that none of the three rifles pictured in this thread are marked by the maker. A least two people who read these threads have a rifle by this maker but theirs are marked so they may not have notice all the things I just pointed out. My question is who has a rifle that might fit the bill here? No need to name the maker but do you recognize the work?
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# 3 looks like it has a Wundhammer grip swell, perhaps the others also which would explain the apparent thickness of the grip. It makes the grip cap look smaller in daimeter than the grip. The inletting looks very tight on all three and the way the checkering joins at the top of the grip looks similar but not identical to the way Rodgers (I think, I'll have to check your book) joined checkering at the front of the pistol grip. I don't know how he managed to cut right into the inletting on the Mauser tang without knocking out even a small chip.
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As I look around I see his work in many of the pictures that I have. 
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Rifle No. 6 
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We can call the this maker Mr. Lion for a while to keep all the different ones out of this. There is a lot more to his work than what I pointed out, he liked a Schnabel forend, long forends, did not like cheek pieces, most of the engraving is one animal on the floorplate with owners initials on the trigger guard. A lot more to his stuff then what is pictured. Do you think you could ID a Lion rifle from what you have seen so far?
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Mr. Lion seemed to keep the same layout for his checkering from rifle to rifle. Are all of Mr.Lions guns so far mausers? Non of the guns have hinged floorplates. Tell me, have I correctly Identified Mr. Lions work on Osa Johnson's 9.3x62 Type A Mauser? It looks like the barrel is about the diameter of the action for the length of the chamber. http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads...e/1#Post2637106
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Are all of Mr.Lions guns so far mausers?
Gun #1 looks to have a 1903 cocking piece and mag cutoff, or is that disc in the rear a tang sight disc?
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Rifle No. 1, 3 and six are 1903 Springfields. These rifles were made before a hinged floorplate was popular.
I am familiar with Johnson's rifle but do not know who made it.
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Michael, Is there something not mentioned yet that should stand out?
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