Steve: If authenticity is a factor in your decision, I'd stick with the options that would have been correct for the period and appropriate to the gun ... a reproduction buttplate or pad like Ithaca would have used in 1913. If it was me, and I wanted a checkered butt, I'd buy an English gun that already had one. My two cents. TT


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