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What is the knurled quadrant shaped button in the top left of the second picture, a bolt release? Yes. a custom one that is checkered.
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Marked on the side of the action below the wood line is "GMF 354"
Glenn M Fewless March 1954???? 
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Glenn is old, but not THAT old. At least not to be filing gun metal back then.
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Are you sure?? He might have aged well!
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The only one so far that I can find that match the initials of "GMF" is George M. Fullmer, Oakland , California circa 1961.
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Mike:
The "M" is for Mook.
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I bet you've worn out a few files in the last 56 years huh? 
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I think Michael might be right about it being Fullmer's work. He was certainly capable of it: at one time he wrote a gunsmithing column for Precision Shooting. I believe he was active from the second world war until the 1980's. Is the 354 spaced in such a way that it could be a date, or does it look like a job number?
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I visited Carl Fulmer's shop several times in the 1960s. He had a collection of California made rifles that was very impressive, and was a "slug gun" shooter as well as a gunsmith. I agree that this might be his work; he was capable of such!
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Not Carl, George. Mr to me at the time.
Sorry about that!
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