I like Maple, especially Birds eye. I bought a 16 gauge Fox Sterlingworth just because it had been restocked with it and I like it. It had been done up by Fagen a long time ago. It matched my factory original Savage 1899 A in Bird's eye to a "T". My 1899 is the only one to ever surface with the special order wood.

According to the Savage Historian and Bob Beach at G&H it was sold in Manhattan at the Von Lengerke & Detmold store at the turn of the century. So I guess I have a forced match pair for camp.

Neither one are checkered, by the way, and I like them like that way just fine.